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FALSE DEMOCIIACY 

OR, 



GEN'L. HARRISON'S CAUSE VINDICATED. 



"Labor est ipse volaptas." 
(Labor is deliglufu!, wiieUier of mind or body.) 



Admitting National Banks are not Constitutional, yet the People, in whom is 
lodged the sovereign will, can authorise Congress to establish one. It tiaen becomes 
law, and forms part of the Constitution of the United States, 

General Harrison says he a:;ree3 with General Jaclisoa — " That a liank of the 
United States, competent to all the duiies which may be required by the Govern- 
ment, might be so organized, as not to infringe on our delegated powers, or the re- 
served rights of the States, 1 do not entertain a doubt." 

General Harrison's soldiers were mixed with th'e sailors of Commodore Perry's 
rieet. To them belong the victory equally v.'ith the sailors ; and General Harrison 
should receive part of the honor as well as the glory of that great battle ; for Perry 
and Harrison were as biotheis,uuiiing their elforts for the beueifit of their country. 
Americans, now is the lime to show your gratitude. 



BY R. WILMOT 

(^inzinnditl, 
1840. 



NEW WORK, IN FAVOR OF THE 

AND THE 

ELECTION OF GENERAL HARRISON 

TO THE 

PRESIDENTIAL CHAIR. 



Elect Gen'l. Harrison to th' Presidenl's Chair 
He is the man lliat ought now — to be tliere; 
Van Buren reject, — he's not fit to reign 
O'er a Free People, wlio will not be slain 
By an arm'd militia in its greatest force. 
Acconip'nied by troops and legions of horse. 
Let him not be Csesar, or Pompey the great, 
To crush this fair country ! — 'tis not will'd by fate. 
Danin'd be the cause of all kingly power, — 
The liberty of millions is the work of tliis Iiour ! 
Americans defend your rights ! — be alwa5's free! 
Washington of the West will secure your liberty. 

Huzza ! Huzza ! ! JIuzza ! ! ! 
Nine times nine 



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BY r: avilmot. 



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IV 

The proudest man in all Cincinnati, 

Is Colonel Todd, in full-blown vanity ; 

One would think he was the great Pope of Rome,— 

His pride and dignity are as marble stone. 

Or does he imitate a British Peer, 

And prove himself an aristocratic bear. 

As editor of the Republican, 

He assumes the Pontiff" in Vatican ; 

There fulminates his own and borrow'd news, 

And some have affirmed his party's views. 

Diff''rence in party there is none 'tis said, 

It consists only in a softer bed, — 

Better furniture, — and some say gold spoons, 

With more gold and silver coins, and doubloons. 

Be this as it may, great Colonel Todd, 

Imitate not so soon the demigod; 

Great Jupiter had no printer's devils. 

But you have them in couples and in trebles; 

Therefore spare the feelings of human kind, 

I'll leave you now to improve your mind. 

Learn, that vanity in this republic, 

Is of all things foolish, and will to you stick. 

It betrays in you a lar weaker head, 

Or that your brailis are pudding, or of lead, 

Neither of which should you make now appear, 

Lest you are call'd an aristocratic bear. 

- .The scale-beams of society are on the balance, — a fiy 
;iiay preponderate either way, — this work may be that fly» 
If so Gen'l. Harrison is sure of his election, as it portrays 
monarchy and aristocracy in Europe, as well as what 
ought to be tlie the republican principles of America. 

The Executive Committe ordered 50 copies of this work, 
fifty thousand would not have been too many for America 
and Europe. The Executive Committee are not rich, — 
then why imitate pride or dignity of deportment, as if 
General Harrison was already in the Presidential Chair, 
and Col. Todd his principal Secretary of State ? Be not 
too certain of success, — the dog who barks most bites least. 
It has been said that I write stronger than Daniel Webster.. 
— this I know nothing of. Every paragraph ought to car- 
ry conviction, as a cannon ball through the ranks of the oppo 
site party. Convert as many as possible to true Democracy ; 
— four horses in a team will do more work than two, when 
General Harrison is the driver of the State Wagon. 

The twentieth clause of the Sub-treasury bill is all that 
is required for the benefit of the people. With that one 
like a finger in the link of a chain, all the other links are 
Impotent. Contend not for that which is of no impor- 
tance. Trifles overthrow an empire or republic, as well 
as an individual. The balance of parties still quivers in the 
wind, and vibrates like an aspen leaf on the tree of liberty, 
in this great republic. Be not too confident and all may be 
well. Be presumptions, and the whig interest which I con- 
sider the interest of millions, will be as was the army of Cras- 



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sus on the plains of Parthia, — overthrown to the hist man, 
and become the scorn and contempt of all Europe ; — 
triumph, — you bring Mithridates, the King of Parthia in 
chains to Rome, or what is the same thing, annihilate the 
pretended democracy, usurping the pride of kings. 

I canvassed the city of Cincinnati for subscibers yester- 
day afternoon, which was something like canvassing for a 
scat in the British Parliament. Some said they had done 
enough for General Harrison, others said they had done 
enough for his cause, but would vote for him, — others 
again, said he was sure of his election ; — that I had called 
too late. The eleventh hour is not the twelfth. I have 
assisted, in Indiana, the whig cause the last six months, by 
my writings, and by reading them, in favor of liberty and 
indepf ndence of mind and principles, which deviate as 
much from pride as light from darkness. I have been re- 
quested, repeatedly, to join the opposite party, but cannot, 
with truth before me. The fact is, I belong to no party ; 
but advocate principles. Men are but the representatives 
of measures. All are known by their actions ; — none can 
be known without them. Be not too confident General 
Harrison ; — be always vigilant. A skilful General in 
politics is like a skilful general in the field, — he always de- 
pends upon a just cause ; that, and by appealing to his 
God by prayer, will etfect the rest ; as it keeps the mind 
calm, while the animal powers are in motion, particularly 
when the cause of millions is united with the benefit of in- 
dividual families ; for Ihey are inseperable in a good cause; 
— in a bad one everything is to be dreaded, — feared, — ap- 
prehended ; and can only prevail where the mind is weak 
from ignorance, or prejudiced by ill example. 

I write thus much to make you feel me. General Harrison; 
that it is almost in the power of one man to overthrow you ; 
and did you depend upon the merits of Col. Todd alone, 
you would be overthrown ; for presumption is a mark of 
imbecility, as audacity is of impudence, and is disgusting. 
The moderation of a party is its best criterion of merit. To 
writo namby pamby in your cause, would be fatal to your 
interests, and of the great republic yen represent. 

The entire edition of this work has been offered to be 
purchased by the Van Buren party, for the purpose of com- 
mitting it to the flames, but withont success. I replied 
that I did not write for sale alone, but io diffuse principles 
useful to the millions w^ho are not sufficient! v informed on 

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VI 

these topics. The use of learning is to bring it to bear 
upon particular subjects connected with the pubHc inte- 
rests. Without this, the knowledge of words is but wind; 
hence, there are niany learned blockheads, of no use to 
themselves or others. 

I have since learned that Colonel Todd is a very worthy 
man, and if so, and retains his military hauteur, after the 
EngUsh fashion, the sooner he suppresses it the better. — 
Urbanity is the characteristic of a gentleman. Pedantry 
of manner and pedantry of language are equally objec- 
tionable to the free-hearted and humane. It will proba- 
bly be said that personal hostilities should not be intro- 
duced into a work of principles ; but, when the principles 
are right and the deportment wrong, the one may be im- 
proved to the benefit of both. 

It is foreign to this subject to state that the writer of this 
work overthrew the tithe-system in England, by a work en- 
titled "The Wrongs of Man," (in contradistinction to the 
Rights of Man) signed, Fairfax, in imitation of the name of 
the° revolutionary general under Cromwell. The tithe in 
England now, is a tithe of rent, instead of a tithe of pro- 
duce ; reducing the tithe from thirty in the hundred to ten. 

Should General Harrison be so fortunate as to succeed 
to the Chair, it is expected the principles of this pamphlet 
will be realized, or it will be necessary to remind the Gen- 
eral, that a confidence to that eiTect was the source of his 
popularity. After being called " the old woman in the 
iron cage", etc. etc., as expressed by the opposite party. 
I mention this bv the way, not that I have any doubts of 
the General, who, thank God, possesses common sense and 
discernment, which Van Buren does not, or he w^ould not 
advocate aristocratic measures, and call them democratic. 
All this is surplusage, and perhaps unnecessary, yet the 
time may come, when recorded principles are requisite to be 
referred to, surrounded as General Harrison will be by all 
kinds of inducements to make him swerve from popular 
rights ; as Van Buren has done before him. 

The question now to be considered is, are these prmci- 
pies advocated, popular with the millions, independent of 
either party ? 1 think they are ; and as such will mam^ 
tain their ground, when the present feuds have no exis- 
tence, by a union in one sentiment, merging into the voice 
of the people, wliicb constitute the millions in this united 

,1. ^ THE AUTHOR. 

republic. ^"^^ 



GENERAL HARRISON AND THE WHIG CAUSE, 

OR 

True Democracy contrasted with False Democracy, 

WILMOT vs. DAWSON,* 

ON THE 

SUB TREASURY BILL; 

ADDRESSED ORIGINALLY 

To the Mock-Legislature of Fort Wayne^ Indiana,, 

Squire Rockhill in the Chair, Feb. 1 4th, 1840. 

Mr. Speaker : — • , , ^ i .- 

I thank you for doing me the honor of electing me 
an honorary member of your mock-legislature. I also return 
my thanks to Mr. Dawson for objecting to the same, on the 
principle that I was not a citizen of the United States;— not 
having undergone the inauguration of naturalization : neverthe- 
less, as a mark of your respect, you did me that favor for which 
I am now grateful, and will advocate the cause of civilization 
as a citizen of the world, who cannot be biassed by any other 
principle than truth ; and as such I stand for wardas your cham- 
pion for the continuance of American independence, as a repub- 
lican form of government, founded on democracy, or a benefit 
to the millions instead of the units, which are comprised m the 
terms monarchy and aristocracy; and should you deem this 
..ddress worthy of printing, I request you will do me the favor 
of sendincT my generous oppositimiist a printed copy of the 
same, to eUcit his rejoinder; that his talents like a f^ampig can- 
dle may not be hid under a bushel of rubbish, called argumen- 
tative reasoning, and logical debate. 

Mr. Speaker, I am a very unworthy advocate to defend a na- 
tions rights, and of this great nation united, m particular; fam- 
ed in all things but experience, which teaches wisdom; and 
which you are now acquiring by placing mind against mmd ; 
and the collision, like flint and steel, will elucidate those sparks 
of effervescence, produced by minds long accustomed to pon- 
der upon abstruse subjects. 

i:^,o.e named gentleman, we wish it ""-jerstood is votU^e Editor of the Ad- 
i vfertiser, in this city, but an eminent lawyer of t ort V^:iyne, Indiana. 



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"Mr. Speaker, 1 have not seen the Sub Treasury bill. 1 en- 
tdeavored to obtam a sight of it, having only a few hours al- 
lowed me to comprehend the subject. But, what I wanted by 
a printed copy was supplied me by one friend and another, un- 
til I obtained something like its leading features, which I have 
endeavored to embody into form ; so that all due allowances be- 
ing made for me — that of entering on the eleventh hour into 
the field. I endeavor to acquit myself as worthy of your cham- 
pion in so just a cause as that of endeavoring to perpetuate your 
independence as a republican form of government, on the prin- 
ciples of democracy, where the sovereign will is lodged in the 
hands of the people instead of their servants, the rulers in their 
name, under the imposing character of President of the United 
States of North America, and the two legislative assemblies, 
who govern by your direction, and not yourselves by their 
dictation. 

Mr. Speaker, as example is before precept, I will quote an in- 
stance of paralel importance to your own debate upon this mo- 
mentous question ; and as money commands all sublunary 
things, I quote it the more willingly as a precedent to establish 
your faith upon, or reject it as not applicable to your form of 
government, which is simply the preservation of the millions, 
who have entrusted themselves to your care, your protection, 
and legislative wisdom. Not as to monarchy, from which they 
fly, — not to an aristocracy, for which they have an equal aver- 
sion ; but to democracy when guided by sense, and the natu- 
ral limits of a plain education, and sound understanding. 

I allude to De Tocqueville's form of government. He there- 
in states lawyers to be men of business, — men easily conform- 
ing themselves to monarchy, aristocracy, and democracy ; to 
all which I assent with this qualifying veto, that they, like 
other men, suit themselves to their interest. You can not 
blame them for that. The questioil is, will they suit your interest, 
and the safe rearing of your infant families, and their succes- 
sors, to whom you belong, and not to any particular form of 
government, whatever ; for man is but a gregarious animal. — 
It is the activity of his mind constitutes him to be what he is, 
and what he will become. Pursue but the right path all will 
be well 5 but if you are to listen to special pleaders, long prac- 
ticed in the science of worldly war, you will be defeated, — the 
Sub Treasury Bill established, — the coffers of the Treasury 
filled with your gold and silver, and your families starved from 
their farms, to revert back to the cities, to be from thence vomi- 
ted forth to the wilds and wildernesses, to become again savage 
men, to outi-age the commandments as instituted by society, — as 
dictated by God to their fore fathers ; and by men who have in- 
tuition or forektiowledge, and perceiving the consequences afar 



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oft now warn you from those calamities ready to overwheini 
you. The destructiveness of the gold and silver coinage, or 
cash payments, are immense. It pays armies to destroy their 
fellow creatures, by the spilling of human blood. It collects 
hoards of treasure for the pay of standing armies, to rivet the 
chains of monarchy around the people in the form of bayonets 
and battering cannon. Once give the President and the legis- 
latures, who govern in your name, power over your gold and 
silver coinage, they are your masters — you are their subjects or 
slaves. Tho boundary question is only a juggle between the 
two governments — England and America, to introduce a stand- 
ing army, when they will require your gold to support them ; 
and they in return will take your blood for monarchy, as freely 
as the bandit does for the captain of his troop. 

Democracy can exist and benefit itself most by a paper cur- 
rency, so well secured as to make it negotiable through every 
part of the United States, without discount, formed on real 
property. Pay it to your army and navy, your chief magistrate 
and your representatives. If they will not receive the same 
money you are obliged to receive, and be thankful to get it, turn 

them out; the Pre«ifleiit fii»l, fui dcuiiig- to rebel agaiilSt his 

masters- — the sovereignty of the people, — and the legislature af- 
terwards. For if you give them gold and silver only, it is only 
of use to them to spend in foreign courts, and like peacocks, 
strut with your gold and silver in their pockets, in foreign lands, 
to be courted by sovereigns with regal splendor, and the pomp 
of royalty, and witness the submission of slaves, under the 
name of subjects. 

Merchandize consists in exchanging of one sort of goods for 
another. No gold is required there, and where your paper is 
of no value, neither should that be of worth, your good bank 
note founded on a national bank ^vould not procure. Act upon 
any other system or principle,— your servants become your mas- 
ters, and all your boasted republican democrats slaves to your 
President and your self-willed legislature. 

Mr. Speaker, the example I alluded to is the following : 
De Tocqueville travelled through your country some few 
years since ; he was a cunning, crafty, political Frenchman, and 
a lawyer well versed in the science of Machiavelian tactics ; that 
of making the worse cause appear the better practice:— recom- 
mending lawyers as the happy medium to raise taxes, negotiate 
Supplies, and remove the difficulties of government, with the 
people upon unsound principles, and the reason is this : Men 
have in general too confined views ; that is, they only see their 
own interest, and not the community's or nation's. They do 
not go into first principles, but take the trouble of going round 
first principles, by second-hand thoughts called expedienciesj 



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■^» au incendiary does round a barn to set it in a blaze ; endea- 
voring to crush first principles, and then call it monarchy, and 
ai'istocracy ; or by the orders of my lord, the king, and my lord 
duke, marquis, earl, pimp, and a host of other insignias ; known 
under the name of harlots of the kings, harlots of the lords, 
and those gentlemen members of both houses of Parliament, 
nearly all of whom are acting against the commandments, and 
the King of Kings, — God supreme. 

The example, the municipal laws of England conferring a 
certain liberty of electing their own members in cities with a 
deputy king, governor or mayor, to regulate the democraiical 
part of the constitution. This was granted with reluctance by 
Lord John Russell, son of the late Duke of Bedford, and by 
Earl Grey, etc. etc ; under pretence of benefiting the people 
with one hand they counterpoised it with the other, and prevented 
any good tendency resulting therefrom, by recommending De 
Tocqueville's system, and placed the counterbalance to the 
British rights in the government, which effectually neutralized 
any good tendency in their former concession of apparent 
liberality. 

L)e TocquGvillo'fl iiigciiiouB _) ct unprincipled system, WaS tO 

employ lawyers as men of business, in that difficult negotia- 
tion between the government and the people, that of raising the 
taxes and extracting money from their pockets with facility 
without rebellion. 

Sixty lawyers were accordingly elected to the British House 
of Commons, who could be called off, and on, like a pack of 
hounds in the chase ; to run down the game — the people; and as 
hounds suck the blood of the deer, so do the lawyers, aided by 
the British government, suck the vital sparks of prosperity from 
the lower and middle classes of society in England, until they 
are glad to emigrate to prevent total ruin. 

These sixty lawyers were elected at the cost of thirteen mil- 
lions of pounds of the public money in the form of Exchequer 
bills. These thirteen millions of pounds not only paid for all 
the election of the sixty lawyers, but also paid for all the bribe- 
ry and corruption necessary to elect them as public-house scores : 
pot-houses', and inn-keepers' bills, usually swelled to large 
amounts ; — one set of rogues paying others well, to keep them- 
selves in countenance. 

The thirteen millions of pounds also assisted to crush democ- 
racy in England, and established the queen on the throne in spite 
of all opposition from the Carlists, and the republican party. 
Spring Rice the English Minister or Chancellor of the Ex- 
chequer, employed to do dirty work for the government, and 
pick the pockets of the people, even unto future generations, 
■was raised to the Peerage, by the Queen for his eminent ser» 



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vices to her, and for trampling over the welfare of the people f 
and with three thousand a year in all probability, as the first 
Earl of Chatham had before him for similar services ; — that of 
continuing the House of Hanover on the throne of England ; 
and this to be received for three generations. The second Earl of 
Chatham enjoyed the pension of 563OOO a year, 54 years. 

This is only one example out of a thousand. Do you want 
the Government of the United States to follow such examples ? 
If so, grant a sub treasury bill. It may be inoftensive at first, 
but will be ruinous afterwards. It will merge into the hands of 
the First Lords of the Treasury, and a thousand other Lords, as 
soon as they get the gold and silver into their possession ; or, 
what is the same thing, the laws that give it to them, whenever 
they are inclined to take it ; and some have said it has been 
taken by handfulls, and others again can prove it has been taken 
by cart loads ; as by the late Earl of Chatham, and his descen- 
dants ; — Lord Holland, and very many others in England. Do 
you want the same devices practiced in this country ? You 
have already began, by your Swartwouts and others, where gold 
and silver was the medium of conveyance to a foreign land. 

These are but a small epitome of the frauds of monarchy ; and 
your Presidents and nobles, or what may be termed ignoble 
blood at present, not having as yet been styled kings, lords and 
dukes, yet once grant the Sub Treasury Bill, you may empty 
your pockets as fast as you can, into the Government coffers 
or cellars that they are so forward in preparing to build, before 
you have granted their request. They will be built large 
enough, strong enough, and guarded by soldiers ; until you will 
be sick of the sight of men women and children, in beggary ; 
while my lord the king, my lord — marquis, duke and other 
ofhcers of the government, will ride about in their carriages to 
visit their mistresses ; — the usual appendages of great men : 
rather say bad men. Their wives have also their cavalier Cer- 
vantes' ; and your laboi and the profits of your industry, must 
sustain them titled and not titled, down to the scullion who 
washes the dishes after the banquets, and the groom who cleans 
their boots and shoes. 

Monarchy presents propserity to the eye, but anguish to the 
heart of the millions. Still, older is necessary to be osberved ; 
and monarchy is better than anarchy. Yours is a medium gov- 
ernment, — only continue it. Then lawyers may be usful, but 
watch them narrowly, or they will raise the President into a 
king, and themselves into lords, and dukes, and princes of the 
blood royal. 

Have a National Bank instead of a United States' Bank, that 
the notes may be received in all parts of the union without dis- 
count; and secuie all the blessings of freedom in your own 



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country, instead of applying for them elsewhere, and running 
in debt for them. The President of the United States, I learn, 
has had an importation of new carriages from England ; — no 
doubt paid for with American gold ; and to be ready against he 
acts the king, and only wants the title to confirm it. 

A word to the wise is sufficient, as Poor Richard says ; and 
so it should be to the Americans, ; who witli all their wisdom 
may want counsel, or a ready concentration of their ideas into 
form and order, as I hope the present reply to Mr. Dawson 
will fully confirm ; subject to any amendment that may be 
thought proper. 

England governs itself by wisdom ; that is, according to the 
errors of the Constitution, which is in fact, founded in error 
from its beginning ; and like an old ruin, will not bear med- 
dling with,, but like an old house, should be pulled down and 
re-established. But not upon American principles, for that is 
partly in error, too. Was monarchical government not to per- 
sist in wrong it would overthrow the king and the aristocracy, 
and benefit the people, by annihilating the national debt. 

To preserve wrong requires more ingenuity than to pre- 
serve right ; but then, it is wisdom founded on cunning, which 
is only a bastard, pseudo kind of wisdom ; not wisdom in real- 
ity, but that kind of wisdom which instigates the fox to run 
away with the goose, and the lien and chickens, without paying 
for them ; and, therefore, he is destroyed, as should all monarch- 
ical governments whatever ; for they all tyranise over the people, 
and reduce them to poverty by a gold and silver coinage, as the 
standard of value, when it no more represents the wealth of the 
country and its labor, than one unit does one hundred : for no 
wealth can be attained without labor. I repeat again, gold and 
silver no more represents the wealth of the country, and its 
industry, than a fly does an elephant. 

Gold and silver may exalt to monarchy, and aristocracy, 
if they can get it from the people ; but then, it must be injuri- 
ous to the people, and their families ; and consequently to the 
republic at large. 

To preserve wrong, I stated, requires more ingenuity than 
to preserve right ; and the reason is, so many are to be blinded, 
that can see ; by f'hev\ring them the precious metals, and then 
giving it them. What class of men can resist gold ? none 
whatever : and therefore, they should not have it placed in 
their power to corrupt ; saying it was the damned fools, — the 
public, gave it to them, and they have the right to give it away; 
for it is their money when they have got it, and no longer 
yours or your families'. Many are prevented seeing at all, — 
dazzled by the splendor of carriages, equipages, liveries, etc. 
etc., and above all by feasting, — eating and drinking ; and resign 



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the reflective faculties of their minds, to please their gastronomy, 
or to gratify their gastric juices, regardless of their families, or 
the future welfare of posterity. 

While those who are troublesome are confined in prison, like 
the phrenologist's attributes, or as bees in their cells. Some are 
transported to Botany Bay for life; and others emigrate to Amer- 
ica to avoid the revolution in England they think they see im- 
pending ; and when they reach the American wilds, it is, per- 
haps, only jumping out of the frying-pan into the fire. 

It is toguard against the repetition of savages being harbored 
within the precincts of the haunts of men, that I take the pen to 
make the money more plentiful — that fewer should be condemn- 
ed to savage life, and resort to the woods and wilderness for a 
subsistence, and not compel them, by resortmg to casn payments, 
to crush the little remaining virtue that may still remain, and 
thus confirm the savage propensities of their nature, which are 
Avithin them murdering, or attempting to murder all those who 
obstruct them in their career of villany and demoralization. 

Was England to adopt a more liberal system, it could main- 
tain all its poor, and those made destitute by oppression, and 
prevent the necessity of hundreds and thousands and millions 
emigrating to the American shores, or transported to Botany 
Bay and New South Wales. All England, Ireland, Scotland 
and Wales could be then cultivated. Its children could then 
find habitations and a home ; but instead of this, they emigrate 
to America, where the same system is endeavoring to be estab- 
lished, aided and assisted by Messrs. Dawson <fc Co., and all 
those attorneys favorable to the Sub Treasury Bill that swarm 
like wasps through the land, and will be followed by the bayo- 
nets of the soldiers, unless some friendly hand can be found 
from time to time to wield the pen in the cause of freedom, as 
those gentleman can and do against it — and this, regardless 
of all consequences of a private nature, to promote the public 
good 

I hope the time will come when they will not depend upon 
any legislature, but upon their own talents, alone, in a good 
cause, sanctioned by the people of this democratic form of Gov- 
ernment, which is hateful to all monarchies in the Old World. 
Then why imitate their examples, and quote them as precedents 
for aggression on the liberties of the Republic of the United 
Provinces of North America ? 

It is easier to govern a few, say the monarchists, by a gold 
and silver currency, than to govern the millions that would be 
created and fed by a well-founded paper currency. If the paper 
money is fixed on land, it cannot run away, be stolen away, or 
stray into individuals pockets to the injury of the public. 

Gold and silver makes the people poor, and the Government 



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rich ; for so few can get possession of it, there not being one 
hundredth part enough for the public wants, and to carry on im*- 
provements throughout the land. The people jfinding they be- 
come poorer and poorer in England, emigrate to America ; and 
the Americans rush into the wilds to become again savage men. 
For if they stay in England and create a rebellion, they are slain 
by the sword, fired at by musketry, or the thunder of artillery 
annihilates them. 

" For little rogues ninst die, 
That great rogues may dine." 

The present banks when secured by cleared land, can be uni- 
ted with the National Bank, including all the State banks, that 
are willing to pledge themselves to give three times the value in 
land as a security for their notes ; if not sufRcient, to take ten 
times the amount in cleared land for the value in notes. Then 
there can be no failure injurious to the public welfare, or indi- 
vidual interest. Hence all parties would be benefitted, and none 
injured. 

I expected there would be proofs of the courtesy extended to 
the American gentlemen in England, by the nobility, <fec. Sic, 
&;c., to the American Ambassadors, Mr. Webster and others, 
Tv^hich has been thus made known. By its fruits the Sub Trea- 
sury Bill, having, no doubt, its origin in England, crossed the 
atlantic ocean in the Ameri(jan Ambassador's despatches to the 
President, and like a nest egg, to raise up eventually armed 
men, and provide a standing army of large amount in numbers^ 
so as to overwhelm any State that may dispute the President's 
authority ; for he is already virtually a king, and only requires 
the American Republic to confirm it by suffering him to have a 
Sub Treasury Bill — consisting of gold and silver, which are 
termed the precious metals. Surely, one-tenth of gold and sil- 
ver, paid with nine-tenths in National Bank notes, nine of which 
for Government purposes of a foreign and domestic nature. For 
instance, the President could receive one-tenth of his wages, as 
a servant of the public, in gold and silver, the remainder in Na- 
tional Bank notes. The same by the army, navy, and all other 
departments whatever, including the two houses of Legislature. 
Those members, and the President with them, and all others, 
should be submitted to the same test, as a si72e qua now, and if 
not obedient to the sovereign will lodged in the people, let them 
turn out, and have a better race to represent the public voice. 
General Harrison would carry the democracy and the republic 
founded on that basis, into effect. Bank notes was the stand- 
ard of value in the time of Washington, and since. W^hy then 
adopt monarchical principles in a republican form of government 
now he is no more, to nullify the decrees. 

A.n Ameiican Ambassador at the Court of St. James, is sur- 



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rounded by all the luxuries of the monarch, and of the aristocra- 
cy united ; and the English Ambassador at Washington City, 
has also a large income derived from the public purse in, Eng- 
land, which have a tendency to corrupt the mind of the Ameri- 
cans. Moreover, Daniel Webster and others, exposing them- 
selves to the same contagion and pernicious examples, have like- 
wise a natural tendency to subvert the mind, and lead them in 
favor of monarchy and aristocracy, which reminds me of the in- 
fluence the voluptuous city of Capua had upon Haniiibal and his 
army, who, having slain forty thousand Romans at the battle of 
Canne, might have entered Rome during the panic, and made 
themselves masters of the Roman Empire ; but from the want 
of promptitude and wisdom, they idled away their time, amidst 
the luxuries of the city of Capua, where with wine and women 
they enervated themselves, and having lost their courage as sol- 
diers, and with it the oppc rtunity, they became subdued in their 
turn — left Italy without striking a blow, while- Fabius Maximus 
and his army protected Rome. 

The Romans soon after reduced Carthage, under Scipio Afri- 
canus, and became mistress of the world. 

Lawyers are a useful class of citizens in managing the jurispru- 
flpnr.o r.€ iW^ oovc^trj , but vYhcii iliey interfere in legislating for 
the eniintry. their views are tnoennfined ^ml erampt, and adopt 
expediencies instead of adhering to first principles. This Sub 
Treasury Bill would constitute and confirm America into a mon- 
archy. Once get possession of the wealth of the country, that 
is, in gold and silver, they can have armies, and subdue all that 
oppose them, at the point of the bayonet or by the mouth of the 
cannon. 

Do not consider me a prejudiced person, or acting from party 
or vindictive motives. My axiom has always been principle — - 
from whence did I derive them ? From the Greek and Roman 
classics; — it was impossible to read them without being anima- 
ted in the cause of virtue and the detestation of vice, under any 
form whatever. 

I do not mean to condemn the visiting- of foreiofii countries, 
and England in particular, as the most civilized nation on the 
globe, and the most learned ; for what would America be with- 
out the English literature, and those giant minds always at work 
for the public service ? I profess to be only a pioneer in first 
principles— clearing and removing all obstacles, to admit the 
rays of truth, which are as the sun to man in morals, as the sun 
is to all animal ami vegetable creation. 

As a proof positive, that cannot be controverted, Mr. McCul- 
loch, at the Bank of Fort Wayne, informed me that the mer- 
chants were never in such a distressed state. Those that had 
five thousand dollars in the bank, had now only five hundred. 



since the commencement of the bank i*estrictiohs, and the report 
to cash payments at the Land Office, and for Government taxes. 
The folly and the injury to the Americans, and to all foreigners 
resorting- to their country, has been immense — it has been the 
ruin of whole districts. The Sheriff's sales are a disgrace to 
the country, in this land of liberty. Many are relinquishing their 
farms, from being no longer able to continue upon them. 

I hope I have said all that is necessary to prove that I am not 
actuated by any party view ; and all I pretend to is, that of see- 
ing a little farther than some other men. For I have watched 
with suspicious eyes, all the tricks of Government, and they are 
many, and I have witnessed the poverty and destruction caused 
by their misdeeds. It is a falsehood to assert that nothing short 
of gold and silver is the standard in value. A national bank 
note, secured on land to three times its amount in value, is an 
equal standard in value. Resort to cash payments, and you are 
a monarchy in all but the name ; and your public expenditures 
will be immense, while the people become poor. Redress your 
wrongs before it is too late ; — nip this Treasury Bill in the bud, 
before it sows its seed in rebellion, and you become a nation of 
armed men — onp State against the other, until the President must 
have a standing army to quell them. He tnen oecuiijeo Kij^g, 

and you are hie elavoe, am muok «o as the English people aro to 

their kings and queens. 

The reduction of Post Office duties on letters, to one penny 
each, in England, was only a bonus to pacify the people and 
prevent rebellion, which might have overthrown the throne and 
ail that belonged to it, and not from any good will the Govern- 
ment had to the people. 

There can be no doubt that the gentlemen of the long robe, 
in England, as we term the lawyers and counsellors, have no 
objectfon to become lords and dukes — the American lawyers the 
same ; but it is not to the people's interest to have any other 
than a mediocrity of interests, which constitute democracy. — 
The expenditures under Van Buren are already very large, and 
should not be increased ; but if the President, legislative assem- 
blies, Government and officers are to be benefitted, then grant 
the Sub Treasury Bill and you will have monarchy at once» 
without the odious name of king. 

A second example may be quoted with effect, and that is, re- 
duce your circulation medium to gold and silver, and the peas- 
antry of America will be reduced to receive two shillings a day, 
American money, about equal to one shilling English, as it is 
in England to supply the husband, wife and three children. If 
the family of children exceed three, each succeeding child is al- 
lowed six-pence a week extra, about one shilling a week of 
American money. 



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Near London, twelve shillings a week are given ; ^^^ther ^^^^^^^ 
London, nine shillings a week, and at W^.^^^ni^ near E^^^ 
six shillings a week to support a man, his wife and family, as 
beforfaUuded to, which sum, when divided into fractions, may 
be disposed of in the following manner, viz : 

One shilling a week for house-rent and milk ; 

One shilling a week for clothes, linen, soap and candles ; 

One shilling a week for firing, hats, bonnets, shoes &c. 

HiT six shillings weekly-is reduced to three shillmgs a 
week to sustain a man, his wife, and three -^^^^^^^'^JJ-^^^PP^^^ 
them with food and drink ; about one penny a day, English 
money, and two cents American money. How cai. they be 
honest? Must they not become prostitutes to the rich ? Must 

not the laboring m^. poach, stab, steal or n--^^^/- ^^ ^ X' 
ence ^ I fear it is often the cause of crime, and burning the 
barns, hay-stacks and corn-stacks throughout England. 

When die poor can no longer work, they are removed from 
this wretched state of famine, to the work-house. Built in the 
form of the Cross of Christ, but witli the characteristics of piis- 
ons, there is no seeing from the windows any ^^mg but t^ie sk> ; 
and no view of the fields, or of their wives or children, fiom 
whom they are separated by brick walls, , -n;iw. 

Will you be reduced to poverty by the Sub-Treasury Bill, ci 
will you stand the chance of becoming rich? 

There are two ways to wealth in an honorable manner— by 
the hands, and by the intellect. -Now it does .^^em reasona^^^^^^^ 
enough, that those who have not strength^of mind, should have 
strength of hands; and the same blessing from a beneficent Cie- 
ator may flow to each. But if you resort to the Sub-Treasury 
Bill, without it Is qualified, it will enslave the whole population 
thi-ouah the United States, by resigning them into the hands oi 
a fewlegislators, who, although not possessing the title of Kmgs, 
Lords and Commons, will rule as despotic as ever king of Eng- 
land did, over his British subjects. One example you have al- 
ready had on your shores, released by" the Revolution, undei 
General Washington. Beware of the cliains that may be again 
forced in England to enslave the American people. 1 he chains 
of the mind are worse than those of the body, bec^ause they are 
invisible to the multitude, and only visible to the few. 

Gold and silver has been the ruin of millions. Did not the 
Enghsh in the time of the first American war, give seventeen 
pounds a head for soldiers, to the German princes? They dicL 
They were bought for slaughter, as butchers buy beasts for the 
shambles. They were slain by the Americans, and very few 
escaped. Hence arose your Independence. You may well 
call it glorious— it was the ascendency of virtue, over vice and 



oppression. 



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Gold and silver has been the ruin of millions— reduced mil- 
lions to beggary, and slain more men in battle than would have 
formed a pyramid of greater elevation, than all the pyramids of 
ancient Egypt put together. 

Stop the first appearances of monarchy in your country. The 
Sub-Treasury Bill is like the Treasury in England — employed 
to secure secret services of a rascally character, and for perpet- 
uating that wrong that never was right ; and who now wish to 
entangle you in the same vortex of dissipation in which them- 
selves, the English, are involved in, to sustain themselves by 
your example, instead of your reducing monarchy to follow 
yours, and thus benefit millions in England by the change. ' 

The English abuse the bounty of heaven to man, and call it 
monarchy. Imitate its example, and you will fall with Eng- 
land, who has often been on the verge of a rebellion in favor of 
liberty ; and when they succeed, they will snap their chains 
assunder, and will convulse the world with its rebound, and I re- 
peat again, as you did by your glorious Revolution under the 
guidance of General Washington. 

They say England had vast influence in the last United States 
Bank. To prevent this, let none be eliarible to become stock-hold- 
ers, but the occupiers of land in the American States, and na- 
tural born citizens. This would exclude all foreigners from dab- 
blinff in vour funds, and render their influence valid and of no 
avail, in endeavoring to injure you. 

In regard to bank influence, if influenced by occupiers of 
land, no great harm can arise. There is always sterling worth 
and value centred in the middle classes — they know where the 
shoe pinches most, and will then have the power to change the 
shoe Mdthout being compelled to bear its tightness. 

And as to the improvements of your country, national branches 
on the foregoing system, would yield every supply adequate to 
the wants for canals, rail-roads, and private and public roads, 
independent of all foreigners whatever, but the laboring classes 
of all countries who would be glad to receive your pay ; and 
thus make your country rich, instead of remaining a poor one — 
for if you cannot get tg the land, of what value is it? It is 
worth nothing. 

The Sub Treasury Bill may appear harmless at first, and for 
two or three generations ; still it has the seed of corruption with- 
in itself. It verges too much toward monarchy, and will event- 
ually sow dragons' teeth in the form of armed men. 

Only one more bill would be required after this is granted — 
that is a bill to admit the law of primogeniture — then monarchy 
is established ; and you have Kings, Lords and Commons, with 
laws to sustain them in their oppression of the people. 

All I pretend to, is to advocate truth. I have no personal 



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hostility. All I require is, that the public may see both sides 
of the question before they decide ; for it is of infinitely more 
consequence than it appears to be. It is, to all appearance, a 
simple question, when it is one of the most complicated in its 
consequences, as ever distracted the attention of the American 
commonwealth. 

Expedients are always errors, tolerated for base purposes ; and 
when under the sanction of power and authority, lead to mon- 
archy, which is founded on oppression. 

A REPLY TO THE SUB TREASURY BILL. 

I have, after two days' hunt for the Sub Treasury Bill, been 
favored with the newspaper containing it. 

I approve of the whole, on the following conditions : — -Thai 
one-tenth part of the taxes only, shall be paid in specie ; also, 
one-tenth part for the purchase of lands, to be paid in specie ; 
the remaining nine parts, in each department, to be paid in na- 
tional bank notes, so secured upon land as before related, and to 
prevent all foreign intiuence whatever. This would not be 
draining the country of its gold and silver, but give impetus to 
talent, ability, industry, and all the grades of the mechanic arts, 

Secondly, That all officers of the Government be paid in the 
same proportion. The President to receive one-tenth part cash, 
and nine-tenths of his salary in national bank notes. 

Thirdly, That the members of the public legislature, in both 
houses, should receive in the same proportion, viz : one-tenth 
cash, and nine-tentlis in national bank notes. 

Also, all officers, soldiers, sailors, and every other departmeni 
under Government, the same as is recommended to pay the Pres- 
ident and the two legislatures. By bank notes, secured on three 
times the value of land, occupied in each several State, the sev- 
eral States to form a junction in monied interests, as well as for 
power and self-preservation, for it is equally as necessary in 
one instance as the other, and would ^ive mutual security to 
both, which excludes the foreigner from dabbling in your funds, 
and thus does away vvitli the suspicions of their evil and design- 
ing practics — to ove whelm or create confusion among you ; but 
be careful you do not overthrow yourselves by their suggestions 
in words, which they cannot perform in deeds. 

As there is not one-hundredth part gold and silver enough to 
employ public industry, talent and ability, it should be made up 
by some standard of value ; and I have suggested, and was pub- 
lic industry to depend on public money so cramped as to be re- 
duced to gold and silver, and abstract that as fast as it could be 
got together into the public treasury, it would put a total stop 
to all kinds of business ; and the merchants, instead of having 



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five thousand dollars, as they formerly had in the bank, but now 
reduced to five hundred dollars, will have only five dollars to 
meet their creditors M^ith, and thousands upon thousands would 
become bankrupts. 

The words in the Sub Treasury Bill, section twentieth, says : 
" And from and after the last mentioned day, all sums accru- 
ing or becoming payable to the United States for duties, taxes, 
sales of public lands, or other debts ; and also all sums due for 
postages or otherwise to the General Post Office Department, 
shall be paid in gold and silver, only, or in svtch notes., bills or 
paper, issued under the authority of the United States, as may 
be directed to be received by law, in payment of the public 
debts." 

This paragraph, Mr. Speaker, is a fraud upon the American 
independence. Why not be explicit, and explain what they 
mean by such notes, bills or paper 1 Why not establish a bank 
upon the principles I have recommended, wherein each State 
shall be joint security, and each large town a joint co-operator. 
They are already united in giving the President consequence 
abroad, then why not secure respectability at horns ? And if 
union is strength in arms, so it is in cEipital ; and yourselves be- 
come mistress of the world in all that is laudable and praise- 
worthy, and set an example to future generations worthy of their 
following the same career of demociacy, instead of confining 
this great Republican Government under the restraint and 
shackles of a despot, aided as he would be by a standing army, 
ready to march to any revolting province that should prove re- 
fractory and refuse to obey the dictator's will. 

If you pass this bill unaccompanied by the amendment as I 
suggest, one State must confer with another, and prepare for 
separation— each one must stand or fail by its own weight aud 
infiuence ; for the confederacy will bo broken, and unanimity 
and the bonds of fellowship be destroyed. 

If such notes as I have recommended be admitted as legal ten- 
der for land, taxes, &c. &c., secured by three times their value, 
in land, (if not sufficient, ten times their value,) with real occu- 
piers on the soil, an acre of land casts twenty dollars to clear — 
let the farmer or proprietor have the power to raise bank notes 
to the extent of five dollars for every acre of cleared land, and 
thus form a national bank, cement3d by a uaion of interests. It 
is visible and substantial property, and not moonshine. 

But if gold and silver is to be the standard of value, instead 
of land, then this Sub Treasury Bill is an insidious bill, and you 
throw the burthens of Government on tlis working classes, in- 
stead of the landed interest ; for no landlord or tenant can culti- 
vate land burthened with taxes, subject to a payment for taxes 
in gold and silver, as they do not grow on their estates ; and a s 



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none others can get gold and silver adequate to their wants, it is 
of no use for the farmer to grow what he cannot get paid for, 
neither in sterling notes or in cash ; consequently, the merchants, 
the manufact'.irers, the artizans, trades in general, with agricul- 
ture, are all destroyed, as by the blow of a steam engine with 
millions of horse power. You had better be invaded by five 
hundred thousand troops — you could annihilate them, and drive 
them into the sea. But this bill is insidious — only half of it is 
seen ; the rest you are allowed to guess at. This, I learn, some 
tens of thousands of dollars are proposed to build large vaults, 
or cellars, in readiness at the sea-ports, to receive the gold and 
silver, that they may transmit it to England for manufactures or 
for the exchange of blood. It should be called the Bloody Trea- 
sury Bill, as it will cause the spilling of human blood, and a na- 
tional debt like England. " Give and take is fair play." Use 
not the public worse than the public use them. The Govern- 
ment ought to receive, undoubtedly, but they should receive in 
an efficiency, sanctioned by the people, or the servants of the 
people become masters, and the people slaves. 

No other parts of the bill are worth contending about. Grant these 
conditions, and annex these to the bill, then all can concur ; and 

arlagfi, " the voice of the people, is the voice of God." 

The legislative assemblies are but automatons to ooho the 
voice of the people, as I do this evening, Mr. Speaker, in your 
mock-legislature, elected as I have been by the majority of the 
inhabitants, and whom your august assembly represents. 

A judge in Fort Wayne has stated to me, that banknotes are 
not a legal tender by the Constitution ; then alter the Constitu- 
tion to suit the people, instead of having a morbid and corrupt- 
ing disease in your Constitution, for it is sound doctrines in mor- 
als as in physics. 

The Constitution enacts that nothing short of gold and silver 
shall be received. In order to produce an alteration, change the 
system ; then those who supply the funds, will be released from 
the oppression complained of. But as I mix no personal feel- 
ings in this view of the subject, I merely state my opinion, found- 
ed as it has been, from observation during the last forty years — 
the greatest part of which has been spent in England, the seat 
of learning-, arts, sciences and manufactures, and the cradle of 
vices, wherein are hushed all the crafts of monarchy, and all the 
treachery of a profligate aristocracy, with many virtues, but not 
sufficient to compensate mankind, for their opposite imper- 
fections. 

Several other objections I have, Mr. Speaker, to gold and 
silver being legal payment for land, etc. which is the hazard 
that those migrators and emigrants undergo, from carrying gold 



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<and silver about tlieir persons or things, two instances may be 
adduced out of thousands which occurred within a month of 
each other. Both men had their sculls fractured — one was kil- 
led, and the other remains insane ; the last one I saw on my 
passage up the Maumee. Both were robbed of their saddle- 
bags, with all their contents in gold and silver, brought with 
them to purchase land of this sanguinarj^ government, which 
deals with the lives of men as if they were wild beasts, and it 
was meritorious to destroy them to get possession of the pre- 
cious metals, as elephants are destroyed for the sakes of their 
ivory tusks. 

Should the wise legislators of this popular country be stigma- 
tized through Europe and the world, with the appellation of as- 
sassins direct or indirect? I think not. Then rescind your de- 
crees, that gold and silver only shall be a legal tender for the 
sale of land and taxes, and adopt a wholesome and safe regula- 
tion of paper currency, that may be transmitted to all^ parts of 
the union without risk ; whereas dollars are so heavy that they 
cannot be conveyed by an individual, without exciti.ng attention 
among the murderes of the land. And for the American gov- 
ernment to persist in sanctioning the massacre of our fellow 

theless, however contrary it is to humanity and Christian prin- 
oiplee, the government does indirectly cause the murders, by 
compelling the poor applicants for land to risk their lives, by 
bringing the gold and silver from afar, under the specious prom- 
ises of benefiting them and in the attempt to obey the legisla- 
tive wisdom, rather call it cunning and treachery to all nations. 
They are murdered and robbed before they reach the destined 
land office, and then, perhaps, choused of the very land they had 
selected, under the pretence it was purchased sometime before 
and only forgot to be marked off the books. 

To be accessory before the fact is equally criminal in legisla- 
tors, as in individuals. If you admit it is known to you, then 
you are the guilty party I allude to, as participators in the plun- 
der of the poor man of whom the assassin could not obtain his 
pelf but by murder ; and you receive it at your land office as 
the price of blood. Surely this inhuman massacre should be 
put an end to. Gold and silver should no longer pollute your 
hands as a sine qua non of possession or non-possession. For 
shame ! for shame ! needed you a foreigner to point out your 
blunders of legislation ? Humanity demanded it, — human 
blood cried out for vengeance and retriljution ; and I denounce 
ye all as accessaries to the crime of murder, unless you relin- 
quish the abominable law, that none other payment shall be 
accepted as legal tender for land, than the precious metals called 
gold and silver. 



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Forbear, before the angry God of heaven visit such crimes-, 
for they never go unpunished. Sooner or hiter they will be 
subdued — overthrown, and made a mockery and a jest of, by a 
discerning world, who will always prefer virtue to crime, and 
substantial paper currency, to gold obtained by the assassin's 
club, or the assassin's knife ; or even from the danger arising 
therefrom. But it is said the Indians will not receive payment 
but in gold and silver : then reserve the tenth part of the taxes 
paid in gold and silver, for them ; for savages cannot be reason- 
ed with as reasonable men, and gentlemen. And now Mr. 
Dawson, I have finished my reply to all you have adduced up- 
on this momentpus question which involves the lives of indi- 
viduals and multitudes ; and should you think proper to reply 
to it, I answer you from the immortal Shakspeare : 

" Lay oil M*"- Duff, and damri'd be he 
Who first cries hold — enough." 



'Tis better to flght great battles with thepen, 

Than to fight great battles with armed men. 

The pen enlists millions on its side — 

The sword steps between the bridegroom and the bride. 

The pen convinces all wlio are not slain — 

The sword 's th 'funeral knell to all dead upon th' plain. 

The one appeals to reason's superior fijrce; 

The other to cannon — without remorse. 

The first, the harbinger of life to man ; 

The last, of death in the shortest span. 

A few short moments devoted to their God, 

The next, a lifeless corpse — a human sod. 

Wisdom directs the pen, life's blood to prolong ; 

Folly directs the slaughter — humanity is wrong. 

Oh ! when will the brute forever cease in man ? 

When men are wise, and folly leaves the land. 

England of all nations is the most unwise, 

It fluctuates, as stocks, downward sink — or rise. 

Men's passions, vice, corruptions are united, 

To produce alarm wlien the vessel is beniglited. 

Ignorance causes millions to suffer wrong. 

The fogs of muddy brains I exhibit in my song. 

Cash payments in England were all the go, 

Now bank notes supply their place, to and fro. 

Stoppage of cash payments, is resorted to at last, 

Why begin to brag their bankruptcy was past ? 

To set America a bad example, 

And exhibit themselves as one sample. 

Delusive monarchy ! your tricks are found at last ; 

America is not ruined — the panic's past : 

Damn'd be your treachery to this new world, 

Who has so nearly thus to ruin hurl'd 

The credulous Van Buren and liis party, 

Who now must sink, damning you moat hearty. 



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Stop, says Wisdom, your most liasty career ; 

Why drive the Car of State down th' precipice of fear T 

What Aicibiades was, in ancient time, 

I am to America, to prevent in time — 

Avert the doom on tlieir devoted head, * 

And rouse to good fortune, as if risen from the dead. 



" A little recruit may chance to shoot, 
Great General Bonaparte." 

Mr. Dawson, my friendly opponent on the Sub Treasury 
Bill, called a meeting of his friends at Mr. Dubois' office, in Fort 
AVayne, February 29th, 1840, to express his want of confidence 
in the cause he had espoused from not having one particle of 
truth as the basis of his principles in favor of democracy, but 
one, and that equivocal, which was a vote of supply to establish 
a press in favor of Van Buren and the Sub Treasury Bill. 

The object of the meeting he said, was to have a democratic 
press ; or in other words, a press in favor of Van Buren and 
his party, to accomplish the Sub Treasury Bill. 

I was present as a second- Paul Pry, " hopeing I did'nt in- 
trude," and stated the misnoma, by democracy I understood 
the benefit of the people without alluding to government princi- 
ples, or if necessary to quote them at all, they should only ex- 
ist on principles of equality; — the Governors of the present 
day were the aristocracy of America, and sought to govern with- 
out depending upon the people. The governed are the democ- 
racy. 

It is by thus confounding names, and stultifying the under- 
standings of the democracy, that lawyers are enabled to be the 
successful tools of any party, or existing government, where 
the whole business is to empty the pocksts of the people, in fa- 
vor of those who govern, and their assistants the lawyers, as 
the Sub Treasury Bill is intended to do. To replenish the 
pockets of tlie people, my amendments of the 20th clause of 
that Bill are calculatad to effect, and operate in favor of the de- 
mocracy instead of against them. Once make the government 
independent of the people; as by an unconditional surrender of 
the Sub Treasury Bill ; and you have monarchy, all but in 
name. Lawyer-agents then become the aristocracy, or pillars 
of the State ; and the democracy or the people are fooled out 
of their birth-right: — the geese with the golden eggs would no 
longer belong to the farmers, but to the tax collectors, — the law- 
yers having stolen them, or want to steal them for Van Buren 
and company. 

They would reserve the gold or yolk of the eggs for the 
Governors, the silver or white of the eggs is to be shared among 
the aristocracy, or lawyers ; and the eggs' shells will fall to the 



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sshare of the farmers ; to make puddings with ; and who like 
gaping fools, when too late, will find out the trick ; that the 
crafty foxes have run away with the geese, and the gold and 
silver, of the eggs, which are to bo divided among themselves, 
instead of the real owners of the property called a Democracy, 
or the farmers, who bred them. 

Van Buren and his party are the aristocracy of this country, 
at the present moment ; but when the Sub Treasury Bill is par- 
sed (if it ever should be), ihey ascend the throne of state, cal 
led monarchy ; and those who promoted the Sub Treasury Bill 
will become the aristocracy ; while ihe outwitted productive 
classes, will be considered only as machine animals, to drag the 
Loco Focos along in their triumphal carriages, huzza'd by the 
unthinking multitude, who will rejoice in their slavery, and be 
glad to catch the loose dollar or guinea distributed among them 
in the scramble, as at elections in Englar.d. and which is repaid 
out of the secret service money always rccdy in the Englisli 
Treasury for bribery and corruption, as it would be in America, 
to the extent of five millions of dollars yearly. 

The Government of America is democracy, or founded on an 
equality of rights. Pass the Sub Treasury Bill without chain« 
or restrictions, and your servants become your masters, and 
monarchy and aristocracy govern in their stead. 

I do not wish to be understood as opposing a second press in 
Fort Wayne. The strength of a cause lays in argument — the 
barriers of which, are tiuth. Once swerve ficm truth and fidelity 
to the cause of democracy, the principle is no more ; and your 
boasted independence is surrendered to the principles of De Tcc- 
queville and othar machiavillians of a similar character, whose 
system is to blind the understanding with arguments of a flimsy 
texture, instead of the adamantine chains of sol. d truth- — the bane 
of tyrants and of slavery ; who would crush American indepen- 
derrce and make them si;bservient, instead ol' their being your 
servants to perform the acts of your will. Do not become while 
slaves. The black slaves release as soon as you are able, theu 
all will be free. 



Mr. Nelson and others, objected to my being present at the 
meeting on Saturday evening last — that it was intended to ex- 
clude the Whigs. Now, gentlemen, I appeal to the public if the 
democracy was not expressly invited, and as one of the democra- 
cy, I accepted the invitation ; but what was my surprise io find 
aristocracy was advocated and not democracy. Indeed, the 
name of Van Buren on their invitation card was proof sufficient 
to substantiate the object of the meeting — that it was democracy 
in name, but aristocracy in fact. Besides, lest I might give of- 
fence by my intruding on a select hole and corner meetinsf, I in- 

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froduced myself as a second Paul Pry, and "hoped I did not in- 
tiude." 1 M as accepled as one cl ihe meeting, and having been 
once adopted, it wus too lale to rescind or attempt to exchide, 
when I am the only individual who has made a ccm.mentary on 
the transactions wliile it rests with those of a contrary opinion 
to give a different interpretation of the intention and purpose of 
the said meeting, if mine is t x-ofhcio. 

To t^ay the Sub Treasury Bill was not mentioned at the meet- 
ing, is an equivoque. It is the same as to say apples will not grow 
on the tree when the buds are hiccming, ready to pioduce them. 
Therefore, it is what lawyers call the w^hite lie, which I call the 
black one, and positively rffiim the Sub Taeasury Bill was men- 
tioned by implication, as plrinly as that Van Buren whose name 
was mentioned on the placard, and the Sub Treasury Bill are in 
unison as one. 

Let loose the do^s of w:ir — let lliem liark and bite : 
It is lielter for poliiiciaiis to spill tlieir ink, 
Tlian for dernuciacy to end iii ti^lit. 

You lia''e cotton power, tol^acco power, 
Farniinsr power, stejini power, sill< power ; 
Add luit one more — Hit; powrr ol'lie mind — 
Tlicn America wilt present a world ^fciiarms. 
In tlie nnrivall'd vnHn's of woniauV ai ins — 
Forwiioniall leL'islniivo wipdom rentie-'. 
As children are lonefined l>y indentures. 



Mr. Clay's speech, and Mr. Wright's, of New York, I conceive to be un- 
answerable by any rcj ly i-hcit ol fo\ hisliy ; po that my commentaries on the 
Sub Treasury IhII, and IV. r. Clay's and Mr. Wright's speeches on the same 
subject, may be considered as corcllaries to each other; and like armed bands 
of partizans united in defensive warfare, may be viewed as the just defenders, 
of the people's rights, against thot e who call themselves the democracy, when 
in fact they ai-e the aristocracy — advocating aristocratic principles to end in 
monarchy. The Whigs are the tiue democracy. The democracy, so call- 
ed by Van Buren and his party, are only false flags to deceive, until they 
have gained possesticn ot the people's rights. They then haul down the 
democratic flag, and up with the aristocratic, and the flag of the king, under 
the title of the king of the I nitcd Provinces of North America. 

Mr. Buchanan, in reply to Mr. Clay's speech, reminds me of the Devil pro- 
tecting sin; which he does in a very inefficient manner, and echoes all for 
raer sentiments and opinions upon that subject, namely, as advocated by Van 
Buren and his party, which f mcll too much of Europe to be agreeable to the 
Americans. The rivalry is in mcnse. As they cKBuot conquer America 
by force, they are cndeavoiing to do so by pernicious opinions and practices,, 
until they moke the democracy of America entirely .depending on the aris- 
tocracy and monarchy at Washington C ily. and which has already began to 
intrigue with the Courts of Eurcje, upon principles of reciprocity and inter- 
ests, as sovereign of the United States, or the king ol the great northern confed- 
eracy in America, assuming a power derived from and belonging only to the 
people. 

The EngUsh Ambassaclor at Washington City, has a large income from the 
EngUsh Government, for v.liul purpose! To introduce the principles of 
monarchy among the American citizen? — to give them a taste for monarchy 
and aristocracy, by introducing the voluptuousness of the city of Capua among 



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them. Bonaparte tried the same at Brussels, and very nearly surprised th« 
English army, with their General, the Duke of Wellington. They were 
obliged to fly from the ball-room in silk stockings, to the field of battle; and 
had not Grauchy been ordered to look after the Prussians, under Blucher, the 
final termination of that conflict might have been fxr otherwise than what it 
was. UniteJ, they might have overthrown Wellington with bayonets. But 
with the firing, gave notice of his approach, and as Bonaparte's army was 
divided, was beat in detail, one after the other, until there was no army left 
•to dispute the march to Paris. 

The English Amsrica.i Ambassador should be looked upon with eyes of 
suspicion, lest he, by softening the manners, softens the principles of the Amer- 
ican rep-ublic ; and as is done at Almick's, an J other houses of entertainment 
in England, and at the Duke of Devonshire's, where all the beauty, rank and 
fashion meet to dance to the sound of music, and where the bawds of great men 
are in attendance to corrupt the principles of the fair and softer sex, and through 
them, their husbands, their lovers or their friends, as is done or attempting to 
be done in America. 

Domestic happiness is best cultivated at the home fire-side. Not so, say the 
ladies of New York and other great cities. We must endeavor to appear, 
and are the rivals of the British fair in England, in all their luxuries; and 
then morals are of no value — -and appearances only are attended to, and 
scarcely that, so that almost every aristocratic lady may be considered as the 
strumpet of the king, or those who ape and imitate kingly influence over the 
ladies of Europe. And will Americans suffer their husbands and wives to 
be debauched by false principles, in order to gratify the vanity of the Presi- 
ident's wife and daughters, or those wives and datrghters belonging to the 
Senators of Washington City ] Do you send them to Congress to uphold 
the morals of your wives and daughters at home, or to be corrupted, that they 
may corrupt them on their return? Tlie Spartan Republic lasted seven hiHi- 
dred years ; so did the Roman. The first was overthrown by king Philip of 
Macedon, father of Alexander the Great. The last, by Cxsar, by the over- 
throw of Pompey the Great. They were suDdued by arms. The arms of 
women will subdue you. First corrupted by the English system of waltzing, 
at the Amha^5iaflnr's, with the private rooms for the select and initiated few, 
until the orgies of mysteries are performed in America, as was the case in the 
times of CcBsar, when he repudiated his wife, that " Caesar's wife might not 
be suspected." 

The fire-side of the domestic hearth, with the moral virtues, is worth all tlie 
glare and glitter of the stage, and the woulJ-l>e-theatricaI effects of monarchy, 
in their seductive allurements of the people. Bonaparte was overthrown 
more by the allurements of women, than by the force of arms. Men placed 
him on the throne of the Bourbons, and enabled him to trample on the necks 
of kings. Women enervated him and prevented him exercising the forbear- 
ance of Washington, who was not to be sedu?ed by either force or blandish- 
ments, and has presented a monument to all President's in time to come, as 
existed in times past, w^hen Sub Treasury Bills were never thought of, and 
not matured to those fraudulent purposes as it has since become. It is the 
first link in the chain of wrong, b}^ which all other links of wrongs are en- 
sured effectually, until the democracy become entirely subservient to the Pres- 
ident's use, and the Senator's abuse, in the forms already mentioned, namel}'', 
that of king and pillars of his state. 

Women are as cats, that cannot resist the Toms, especially when aided by 
music and dancing. The Sub Treasury Bill is to all intents and purposes, a 
woman's bill : to arm the men first, as is done in Europe, and then seduce 
their wives and daughters afterwards, under the pretence of benefitting them. 
Cajolery is the order of the day in England, and it is becoming so in America. 



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Prostitution of principles is called fashion. Prostitution of person, a liescen, 
or license to commit a breach of all principles, sanctioned by the command- 
ments, and the marriage vow is looked upon as a jest, instead of a religioua 
obligation, which alone is true democracy, according to the laws of God and 
of man. The open violation of these principles, are sanctioned by all mon- 
archies and aristocracies, and by both houses of legislature in England, as it is 
attempted to be followed in America, by a side wind — by a polite invitation 
from the President to surrender your rites as freemen, that you may become 
his bond slaves as soon as the Sub Treasury Bill is passed — if it ever should. 
Resist the lure to dinner parties, paid out of the taxes ; and your wives and 
daughters restrain, by keepipig them always in your sight, or as it is in Eng- 
land, will become so in Amarica. Instead of a moral, you will become a 
grossly immoral people. England has no character to lose ; but you have. 
Once the Sub Treasury Bill takes effect, all restraint from the false democracy 
IS at an end, and like wild horses, men and women becoma as ungovernable 
as wild asses in the career of vice. They rush from balls and dancing, to 
every enormity contrary to the sanctity of the marriage vow. 

Fortunately for the Americans, their country extends far and wide, into 
the wilds and woodlands of the far west, as yet, an unredeemed forest, and 
must go through grades of simplicity and industry, accompanied by the vir- 
tues, such as they are, before they can arrive at the first degrees of luxury, 
which stages are first attained by the merchants, the Senators, and their fam- 
ilies, and gradually, until all are corrupted, a? in one vortex, proceeding from 
head-quarters downwards, until it reaches the lower and lowest grades. But 
before then, wages would be reduced to the minimum, or smallest scale, as in 
Europe. This, the Sub Treasury Bill is intended to effect in the most exp6~ 
ditious manner ; therefore, beware, in time, of all bills having a -tendency to 
produce a division of ranks into classes, which when once done can not be un- 
done, without a second revolution in America. 

Mr. Clay is perfectly right in insisting upon a circulating meJium, indepen- 
dent of gold and silver. Why accumulate all the gold and silver in circula- 
tion, into the Government coffers, strong holds or Government cellars 1 

Was one-tenth paid in gold and silver, as I have before recommended, such 
vast cellars would not be required ; and nine-tenths in bank notes properly 
secured, namely, five dollars so used by the national or State banks, to be the 
representative of one acre of cleared land throughout the Union. Hence its 
value in all parts of the world, as well as in America, without being subject 
to a premium, as is now paid for gold and silver, in order to pay into the Land 
Office and other taxes. I myself paid ten per cent for silver, but now it is 
purchased by the banks at four per cent, perhaps to sell again at a larger 
premium. 

If a union in power is necessary for mutual protection and preservation, so 
is a union of the circulating mediums of the country, as not to be liable to dis- 
count, and based on the solidity of cleared land, which could never be dis- 
puted in value, for the land would in some instances be twenty times the value 
of the bank note, or in proportion to the amount it represents. This would 
give an impulse, and a power, equal to steam. It is as the breath of the peo- 
ple, and as necessary in the transactions of life, as the vital air that is 
breathed. It is to the pocket, what the oxygen is to the blood. It is a new 
principle of motion, which moves steam carriages, propels shipping to all parts 
of the world, and would be available in the foreign market, equal to gold and 
silver, for the dollar could never represent or secure more than a dollar, while 
the national bank note, secured on land, would represent in some instances, 
twenty times its value, and consequently could not be forfeited without a loss 
of twenty times its amount, which would always insure and secure its re- 
demption. Nothing more is reciuired. Therefore, all arguments of a contra- 



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ry tendency, are idle, vague, and loss of time to refute, or even attempt it ; for 
it is self-evident, and requires no demonstration ; and no conviction can b« 
more clear, for it is as plain as the five senses, or the nose on a man's face, 
when he has one. 

The circulating medium once established upon the principles of democracy, 
all difficulties would be at an end, in commercial enterprizes, of a salutary 
tendency. But if gold and silver is to be the standard of value, there end* 
democracy ; and monarchy and aristocracy govern in its stead, as in Europe — 
abridging the value of labor to a shilling a day, to sustain a man, his wife and 
three children, as at Woodbury, in Devonshire, and by the time the auxiliaries 
are paid for, as house rent, fuel, clothing, shoes, &c. &c. &c., leaves the poor 
farming man sixpence a day, English money, which is less than the statistics 
of any other country on the globe — the difference in the prices of provisions 
taken into the account. And do you want to bring America to this 1 Then 
where is the inducement to emigrantion or migration 1 Europe is becoming 
hke the Chinese Empire, where the inhabitants are ready to devour the most 
disgusting aliment — as dead animals that have died a natural death from fevers 
or causes unknown. 

A dollar a day in the marshes of the west, where provisions are dear, is not 
too much ; as they are subject to fevers and ague, and various other inconve- 
niences not contemplated by the Americans in cities, and still less by the Euro- 
peans before they emigrate, but which are sufficient to deter millions, who 
can gain a subsistence in Europe. Those who cannot, may emigrate to the 
west, where life or death awaits them, either in the form of employment, or are 
cut off before they become seasoned to the climate. 

To dwell on stagnant lands, emitting marsh effluvias, a man should be well 
paid. In addition to this, morals are at a low ebb, and scarcely any man can 
depend upon his wife who is good looking, but some sly officious rascal, un- 
der the pretence of friendship, seduces her and all her children from the hus- 
band and father who begot them ; and although slavery is not permitted, yet 
by seducing the wife, the children are naturally attached to their mother, an 
-entire family is thus lost in one night. The sleighing on the snow, presenting 
a facility not presentable in every country, but which exists in North America, 
so that there should be most powerful inducements, indeed, held out for the 
more respectable class of inhabitants to reside in the far west, where laws are 
only nominally established, and where religion and morals are no more re- 
garded than among the aboriginal savages, whom they in a great degree re- 
semble, not stopping at murder and every device within the ingenuity of man. 
To reduce the wages, is to make man still more desperate, and he becomes 
again the savage which his education, if he ever had any, had in part redeem- 
ed him from. 

In propositi? the national bank, every man's vote slioijiil he of equal value, whethfir 
representitic; one pcre or ten tlionsand acres, or to any extent, and be only of value 
where lie is a resident of the soil. 

To Rstahlisli ;;old and silver as a circulatinu medium, would abridze the value of la- 
bor, and yield no return for the cleared la-ids, which cost U|)on the average, twenty 
dollars an acre for the clearing. But hy establishini? a hankinsr system upon'every acre 
cleared, would he an iiiducement to persevere, and thus estaldish a funded capital as 
well as a landed and coiniuRrcial interest in the country The professions then could 
get priid without breaking up the fiirnisr. as is noivso reper.tedlv done by Sheriff's sales, 
and every species of enormity. The eff.^ct of retributive jii<lice an I mercy must come 
from the Government and the wise men of the Eisf, if there are any ; if not, accept this 
tribute from an inhabitant of the old country, wlio emiiirated amon!? you, but having 
lost his vvife «iid children in the woods, (stolen from him, as was hisliorses, cattle and 
hozs,^ he reirozades upon socieiv to benefit civilization by his experience and wisdom, 
founde.l upon that experience, for it is by so learning, the most ignorant men become 
wise; and to those who have had a previous education, these remarks are doubly esli 
i!;able, if not invaluable ; and as such, I ofTcn- my praises on that which is estimable, aod 
that which has a tenliiucy to injure the mrjority, I denoun'^e accordinjly, 

Ifyou establish the gold and silver as a standard of value, 1 recommend emigranta and 
. migrants to stay where they are. rather than brave the dangers of the sea, (wher« I lost 

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a son,) in seeking otlier lands which are of no value lo them when they have got thetHr 
with the chance of hein? munlereil by the way in emieavorin'f to reach their place'of 
location, or when there, he deprivel of their wives aiul children, (as iiy wife and three 
sons;) therefore, [ speak feelin;ly on tlie injuries socielv receives from the untamed 
white man, who is worse th.n the savage, as he is not suspected until too late. He de- 
moralizes, which is worse than death, and yet tliis country is chilled a land of morals 
and principles ! Rather say of ferocious savaijes in the Far West, whose brutality ex- 
ceeds the Indians. 

Tlie present ample wages in America indue? emig'"alion and migration, and" relieves 
large cities from that excess or redundancy of po 'ulation h^yond its wants, and purges, 
as it were, the feculences of society to ihe far west, wliere they begin a new era, and if 
they have anv good principles left, n)ay redeem themselves fro n the everlasting stigma 
which assailed them, perhaps, in their father land, or in their mother country or States, 
in all parts of the Union. 

Once remove the Government of America from restraints, they become your masters, 
and yon its slaves. Instead of Iheir depending oi yon, you are depending on them — 
Tyranny is established, and moiiar",hy is established inaH but in name, which it would 
in a few genHraiions a-su'ne, aide I and assists I by the soldiers of Girope to rivet your 
chains, and which 3j;our Sub Treasury Bill would enable the [jdv 'niina; powers to pay 
them with, as has been so frequently practised upon the continent of Europe, and in 
England, 

The modified Sub Treasury Bill I propose, is on the system of equality You treat 
your servants not worse liian you treat yourselves. If you mean your servants to par- 
take of greater luxuries than y.nx do yourselves, j'/ass tiie Sub Treasury Bill, unreclaim- 
ed, unchained and unreduc(!d in the enoiimtv of its o Tences against your common 
wealth, which will he no 'onger such The craft, cunning and treachery of man, has* 
forged for you invisible chains which will become visible as soon as ihey are felt. It is 
then too late to complain. You will be like the feloi on the gibbet, who, having trans- 
gressed the laws ofGod, the laws of man \;iv hold of bin, liang him or imprison him for 
life, as you will be, 'generations after generations, um il time sliall be no more. You are 
at present the only bulwork aiainst oppression in the wo/ Id. Pass the Sub Treasury 
Bill unaltered, there is no refuge for the e'liigrant or the migrant, hut ovorthrowing 
those establishments at home v\hich oppress them : but now, as asafety-valve to astcanj 
engine, those desperadoes and desperate men flv to tlic far west, and as savage men or 
wild beasts, are gradually tamed, or seek still further lands of a more savage nature, 
congenial with their tempers and dispositions. Perliaps, liaving previously forfeited all 
claim to protection in that land they had migrated to, but are compelled to advance fur- 
ther, or suffer the indignation of the more temperate in i h!;ir retribut ive justice. 

Let the President have command of your uold and silvi.'r, he can bribe the Senators ; 
and as to your lower house of Conirress, can seduce them all by iiood dinners and the 
promise of sood places. It is so in England to this day, and has been so ever since the 
days of Sir Robert VValpole, tothe present time. .Mi>ney w;is found to be more influen- 
tial than the sword. Hence the termination of civil war in Ernilnnd : for the country 
ia so balanced by the W hiss and the Tories, by eq lally .livid inn the places and pensions 
among them, that unanimity prevails The peo.ile or the democracy pay for all, as it 
would he in America. The two upper ranks of society living out of the industry of the 
lower, demoi.racy would be abolished in all but in name. The strui^le is, is democracy 
to prevail, under n national bank, subject to its own control, and where draf's from the 
treasury can he attended lo as well as in an imlepeiident treasury s(;heine.to monopolize 
in favor of the Government, and presents them witii the meansof cot rupting the Sena- 
tors of both houses, as they would ^ hare the plunder with the Presi('eni, they would he 
silent as Freemasonry ; or is aristocracy and monarchy, under such system of finance, 
and which is attemptetl to he imposed on your weak jnd'iments, for they call it by one 
name, namely, a security ajrainst banks ? In God's name, secure themselves against 
banks, but do not lake the liberties of the people from them at the same time, under the 
pretence of benefitting them by establ'shinz a disc;ise worse than exists, by bruaiciug 
down the Constitution under the pretence ot men linfr it. 

Buchanan is one of the quacks. l)-eakin2 up the Co.istitution under the pretence of 
mending it. " His hydras, gorgons, and chimeras dire," are not the ed'ects of the imagi- 
nation. Worse tragedies than imaginary ones have been acted in Europe, from the pe- 
riod of the French llevolution to the present time. Hence all the slaugliter and con- 
scripts levieii in France and throii!;!! Knropc, proceeded from the union of the sword 
with the purse ; and the same is intended on the American continent as upon the Euro- 
pean, in the last part of the last century and in the beginning of this. 

Poison is poison, whether physical or moral. If the ^'irtues of de nocracy are under- 
mined, it is an injiirv. So it is in depriving them of the m.-aiis of subsistence in any 
etftcient manner. The de'Jtrailation of moral democracy is threatened; and let me call 
upon each man, to lose his life with honors, rather to sulFer the Sub Tieasury Bill to pass 
without restrictions and restraint on the twentieth clause, as I before mentioned. 

Tlve enli^hrenments of candor as received (Vom Europe, will destroy the American 
principles of independence. Monarchy has found out it cannot conquer America by 
force of arms, hence is infused, or end'avorinj to be infused, the poisonous tricks of the 
monarchical systems of linance, which beggars the poor man and his family, and doubles 
the wealth of the rich. Is tiiis to be sutTered In America.^ (s there to be no portion of 
the globe free and exempt from taxes of a disgraceful and ruinous system as to demoral- 
iae the poor, while it enslaves them ? Working upon their ignorance and prejudices 



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first, and then enslave tlieirt as macliiiie animals, to draw about the locofocoti of wealth 
and power, under the preten"e of heuel^ttin-^. which 13 adilini? insult to injury. 

Buchanan, when spealcinir of thn ili.'Story of finance in \inerica, says '' it haslwen a 
system of constant vibration." How shonbl it be otherwise, when tlie first principles 
of prudence liave beei omitted, namely, security. It is like E ij;lanirs national debt. — 
Was it not for the democracy of Kniland paying the interest on the national debt, it 
would be extinct, and momichy ami nobility would pay the forfeit, both in titles and 
estatos, for which it was contracted to defend. 

" The country has been ilutred with forei'^n merchandize" is too true. Country mer- 
chants order three times as much astliey can sull in one year, consequently, three times 
as much as can be paid for in a vvcai time. The New Vork merchant sympathizes in 
the failure — the debt is contracted — securities are <^iveii — the country is invloved ; but 
the nation ( ledijes itself tu pay, and it will iio paid — ')ut frugality must be practised in all 
departments, as well as a wi-'e system of finance, aid not extract the small remains of 
property anion? the people an 1 imry it in the Sub Treasury vaults, to aid and assist the 
Government to become independent of the democracy, as it is in Europe. 

Emi'^rants from Europe in iti-spair of resus':i!atin ' lost liberty at home, fly to America 
for refu<;e and repose, wliich is abtut to be t iken fro a the \1n3ricaas also, by the Sub 
Treasury Bill ; not in a direct maaaer, but indi fjctly. If union is power, so is uniou 
in finance. 

Buchanan is like another Dr. San^rado, extractiU'; the last vital sparks of prosperity 
from the indigent and lediiced Amerii-ans. instead of replenisliinir tlie system by a heal- 
thy circulating medium. What isjoo 1 'n p'lvsics, as I bufire said, is good in moralsanil 
politics, and especial in this distracted country, which, like he fro? in the fable, who 
wanted to be the siz? of ilie ox, swelled ilaelt until il bur^t, by following a wrong sys- 
tem instead of a right one. 

"Seventy-seven millions of dollars was the diffi^rence between our imports and exports 
in two years, from 1833 to 1838, which is suffi^ie!l' to excite the astonishment of the 
world," says ''uchanaa. The pirent Sate not setting its children a good example, 
what could be expected of those Irss informed ? You want a healthy system of finance, 
established upon an undissa'vable bisis; not to be built on the sea sand, but on a rock — 
the rock of ages. The land of your forefathers and of th ^ ab:)rigines, however acquired, 
is still of value when reel limeJ from its -^avago state ; until then, it i^ of no value but 
tuthe emigrant and the migi"ant to expend iheir industry upon— and then, and not ti»l 
then, is it^f value, as a medium of -ecurity to regulate finance, as before alluded to, 
namely, each acre of cleared hmd to represent a five dollar bank note throughout th« 
Union, or upon some such sy-tem equally secure. 

•' These three causej together," says ;\Tr, Muchanan, " have occasioned a suspension 
of soecie payments within iwo y.'ars " So fir is this to be wondered at, that the sur- 
prise is that it should hold out two years, and no continued i'ov more than two mauihs. 
It only proved this, hat tha A-ioericau Gonstitutiou is a good one, or it could not have 
held out against the shocks of qu ic ;ery in its financial department so long. I will sup- 
pose a patient to take blue bills fortwo m>mth3, would it not be long enough to produce 
some derangement in the system 'l And if cuaiinuel two years, is it not enough to de- 
stroy the entire healthy action of democracy, as il has done in every Gavernment ia 
Europe ? 

There cau be three banks, and all co-operate for the welflire of the democracy, and 
not for Van IJuren and his party to sp^nd in Europe in the fjrm of gold and silver just 
obtained from hard earned industry. Ii is thus the Government Hanks or Sub Trea- 
sury, on the principlfs I have recomaionded, namely, oae-tsnih g dd aud silver, the re- 
mainder of the taxes and- for land, payable i 1 national bank notes, which may be of 
Vwo characters — Provincial atid Ge-neral : the i'rovincial, to be governed by the num- 
ber of acres under culiivatio 1, and the (Janeral i5ank. regulating the same, under the 
■superintendence of a Commiitee, as is practised in the regular government, to see, 
control, and check all kinds of fraud, forgerias and the like delinquencies— to pre- 
serve the national honor, nitional faith, and national hone ly — a kind of trio in uno ; 
each one highly neceasary to the other, and all united, is the m pliti ultra of all bank- 
ing systems— to be published every mouth, or every quarter of a year, to suit public and 
private convenience. 

The entire woar and tear of an animal body is perhaps one-tenth of its circulatiug flu- 
ids, replenisiied tliroiigh the day in t!ie various forms of refreshing substances, both solids 
and fluids as is required. One tenth gold and silver i.s all that is requirel by tiie Bank of 
England to carry on its exchaaues. Or three millions of gold and silver in its coffers to 
27 millions of Bank of E i,'laiid pap.^r. Thus, the three systems of banking £ propose 
would be sufficient f)r tiie >vants of America, riie Bank of England requires more ia 
true when tiiey have to pav ^-'ol I aud silver ttr grain as in the case of a lailureuf a crop 
by adverse seasons ; then of course more gold and silver is required but this could not be 
in America, where faf'ilUy to transfer is so t;a<ily accomplished and where the national 
bank note could be of i;<} lal value all over the Union. 

£ think 1 have answered all o'ljections to my own system, excepting what may be al- 
ledged by casuists orpr .cticed disjmiers upon wrong principles, and these are not wor- 
thy of being replied to but wit!i adesi'^n of proving their fallacy. 

To order more from England than can be paid for in a given time is a species of fraud, 
as it would be between orivate debtor aud creilitor exceeding the usual limits of credit 
understood by the trade. If the Government has 31 clauses out of 32, it ought not to 
complain. Let there be, at least, one clause in favor of democracy. Notwithstanding 



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all the m anarchical countries in Europe are opposed (o it. And what if they arc. Amer- 
ica is essentially fltfferent in Its construction, or it is not a constitution of democratic 
principles, bat principles called a republic, differing from monarchy only in name, and 
not in things or practice. 

The banks, says Mr. Buchanan, have blown up twice within the last two years; how 
should it be otherwi-ie ? The only wonder is, that they did not blow up twice within 
two months. No bank can be efficient in gold and silver on demand, anymore than 
any tradesman could pay all his debts on the instant. It is unreasonable to expect it, and 
afraid on bankers or tradesmen lor«>quire it. Then say Uio Government, our deposites 
should be forthcoming npoM the instant rexiuired. True, then, form your own bank, 
call it Treasury or Sub Treasury, and issu \ scrip to the am. Mint of the liabilities, which 
may be called exchequer bills to be paid 'iy the proceeds, in the ways before enumerated, 
as exactly as a debtor and creditor account in any other rtarl of the world. The difficul- 
ty is none, and only masnifipd for fraundulent purposes. To obtain more influences and 
preponderations in the Government interests, which are no lonfter synonimous with 
those of the people. Trick, artifice, and deception, should be avoided. Confine your- 
selves to -first principles, for when you come to practice others which are complicated 
machinery, requireniore management than tiie machinery is worth; hence the advantage 
of single opinions, which can lie made n«e of to govern all good governments, but re- 
quire the utmost ingenuity ot logic to govern hy bad principles, which have usurped the 
place of the good. Tne former isea«y. the I .st is ilifficult, and requires ten times the 
force to carry it on efficiently, so a« not to destroy tlie whole, by a sudden blow up, as 
from a had steam boiler. Van Buren and his party, appear to me to be precisely in the 
same situation nsfo prejudice, as the doctors of divinity in Cambridge University were 
in the days of Newton ; — tliey still prefTerred the system of Descartes to Newton's, and 
it wds not until they died otF or were removed, that Newton's system was established; 
•which was 30 years after the discoverie:^. 

Tliegovernmen! is established for the benfitof the people, and not for tlieir injury. — 
Delay in Pon:e occasions is useful, while precipitancy ishighly detrimental, as that of for- 
cing the Sub Treasury Bill forward to a coniplelion in a .short time the very hurry is suf- 
ficient to cause sus[ticion of its evil tendencies, and our reasoning upon it confirms it. 

Mr. Buchanan in his zeal for maniilacturies, wants to grasp the world. Let England 
and the old continent of Europe enjoy their triumph in man'ifactories. It is the natura[ 
consequence of reduced waxes to the lowest prices by whi^li human life can be sustained ; 
and that by an industry in foul air and feculences hurtful to health. And the conse- 
quence of the pi incipnl of value being confined to gold and sliver when it is compelled 
to be relaxed, or it would not pay for the 100th part of the industry emjiloyed in manu- 
facnlories alone, indeiiendent of agriculture, and every other art and science. 

Washington adopted a National Bank, which lasted sixteen years, perhaps to hU 
death. 'I'hen why alter that which was adopted by the founder of your republic. Six- 
teen years was a loleralile criierion of its practical utility. Besides which you are in 
debt to several millions of dollars borrowed during tlie paper syststem of finance. And 
-HOW to resort to money payments doubles the debt contracted with a paper currency. 

"■'■^^>^^&^^ ^^ysA^w.. . 

[To the Editor of the Fort Wayne Times] 

iSiiv • — You will oblige me by inserting the following poem, on the subject of two gen- 
-tlemen coming into this neigiiborhood to proclaim sentiments highly prejudicial to the 
public interests. 

Washington was the fatlver of his country, and its principal benefactor. He was pre- 
vailed upon, — unfortunately prevailed upon to accept the Presidency a second time, and 
by so doins; established a precedent, which is to be lamented. — That he did it was not to 
please himself, but others, who could not pay hini too much honor. But which he 
virtuously relinquislied at^ter his second introduction to the Presidential Ciiair. Others 
have since done the same. So that it is no longer expected that the President will re 
sign at the expiration of four years, but is considered as a piece of rudeness on the part of 
the Americans to require it. As if it no longer heionged to your countrymen to elect a 
Chief Magistrate every four years, but. that he should re'ain his pomp and power with 
all the pertinacity of an hereditary king. 

Simplicity and innocence is the order of your republican government, to elect whom 
they think most beneficial, and who they lliink will most benefit the numerous faniilies 
in this large republic. Or ('o tin y prefer to aggrandize one or more families to the inju 
ry of the rest — iliat standing armies may be as tbilhful as servants, and yourselves as sub- 
missive as slaves. Your readiness to comply with my request and those of others, will 
•oblige voiir verv obedient R- W. 

JuliJ20Ui., 1840. 

P. S. I congratulate Judge FJannah on the ofF-hand manner with which he cleared 
up sever.al particulars, connected with his public character. 

I have once heard Mr. Web.ster's opinion is, (how true I know not) that Government 
should take care of the rich and the rich should take care of the poor. In England the 
government takes care of both, for their own benefit. In America it should be for the 
.iBsnefit of the whole. 

As the winds of the ocean, as the waves of the s«a 
Are the waveri.ig of minds, in uncertainty. 



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What (\e non inflicted throunrhont this fair lanJ 

Th' curse of a seconrt Presidency? a firebrand 

To distract the mind, to inflict a pui)lic wrong. 

And cause me thus to pxlHt)it it in sonsj. 

One Prej'ideiilial cliair is enouirh to fill 

With ma'i's ambition. To •riiHrd from present ili 

Repeat not the ofli<e. It is a public curse, 

Althouirh lie<,un by Washiniiion ilie just. 

Desist in time nor elect one President more 

To be President ajain, as he was before. 

It's an infamous |)nlicy,a crafty trick, 

To cheat the public. As an empiric, 

No honest statesman sliould require more 

Titan to be oikg a Pre-ident, and not encored. 

To he President o'tce is to be near a throne ; 

Twice a President, vour liberties are half gone. 

Make him Pre-iidoul (or life, — you have none. 

Heard yon the d^maTo^ue thunder in yotir ears 

The praises of Van ? and this without his fears. 

If you elect him twice vou make hitn royal blood. 

His sons are priuce^^ since they cross'd the flood. 

Ensjlrtnd's islann is infi!Ciiou3 to a dei?:ee. 

It is therf t'ipy learn the crafts of royalty. 

By blandishment- and arts, is the way they stea! 

Til' crown, atid vour best liberties conceal. 

So it was wii!i Pivid, favored liy his God, 

He mouniod a throne, ai.d gave his ki:iglv nodj — 

Ordered Uriah to tlie front ranks to be s'ain 

That his wife miihf w e with him again and again; 

Americans he caref-'l of your liberties .' 

Nor suffer tliem to be disturbed with jealousies. 

Elect whom you pleasf? o.ice, but never again, 

Lest you in tiie front ranks are order'd to be slaia. 

Kingly i)Ovver arose from the craft of ]>riests. 

They first sub lued the minii and then tiiey preach*d 

Obedience to themselves, tlieir king, and God, 

Mankiitd are tlien as worms are, in t h-e sod 

Of earth, to be placed on hooks for fishing. 

As Kennedv wa-s, wlien in the royal kitchen. 

More than once he spoke of the " President's spoons,' ' 

And the 'job! and silver in the royal rooms. 

''Toilescend with the President's Chair ;" 

And as heir-loous, to descend from heir to heir. 

What is all this hut the pantomime of pow'r. 

To preiiare future President's for their royal hour ? 

When Presidents are Kmss, your liberties are no raor«; 

It vanis'iesa< smoke does from fim .-oyni fires. 

Your pniHiiatioii D come the victims of great guns. 

Your liberties are gone, you are undone. 

Go weep your tb'ly, as children who lose their toys .' 

You then are slaves, prepare for kingly joys. 

Datnn'd vou will be, condemnM by every clime. 

Your liberties gone, you're no longer then sublime, 

Your boasted land of liberty is no more. 

Your virtues then, areas {)rostituteil vv s. 

Believe -.ot Kennedy, nor Chatnberlain the tall; 

And the blackstnith's fallacies, the least of all. 

A dema'joaue he is wiih a shameless face. 

With bare-fi^ced impiidenceand vul^iar grimace. 

Listen not to him. nor his shallow speech. 

He deceives vou most wlien he most pretends to preaeh. 

Pretence It isall.liis principles are unjust, 

DefenI you the C'lair you can no longer trust ? 

To elect a President twice, ne'er hear of more; — 

Those titnesare |)ast,— should ne'er have been before. 

Defend your Chair, as you would an earthly throne. 

Brums slew C!E*ar for ambition alone. 

Keep your renublic good, — suffer novice to reign 

Under a ['resident's or any other name. 

A President once may bean lionest man. 

But twice a President, either he, or you are datnn'd. 

The craft of reignitigsoon becomes a trade. 

Can a w — ~-e be virtuous when no longer a maid ? 

Believe it not. Presidents are hut men, 

And should never be elected again . 



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Wont Van Buien abdicate? then <irivehim (romth'Chair. 

DamnM be his pride, he is not Cmsar's heir. 

Heiediiary ri^iits you must now disown ; 

Or cea^f! to niouri ,and lie forever o'erthrown. 

Let Ha rison tlie wise, the just, the brave. 

Ascend ihe Cliaii', — he no h)nger Van Buren's slave. 

Danin'd he tlie deinau'0j;iie, and all his race; — 

That brainless ass with a brazen face. 

How dare he preach against liberty and law ; 

And talk o spoons and gold he never saw, 

A lick-spit, craven his loyalty, — a dinniir. 

He wants place and pension, and be the winner. 

Van Buren's name is the hobby-horse In; rides; 

And Cinin'ierlaiii with lotis less Van uien bestrides. 

Their Z(^al i-; very iireat. Cati they not do more ? 

Yes. I'he shortest legs are sufterM to ride nefore. 

Asthey both ride Van, one must ride behitid: 

So fortune ordains it. She is always blind ; 

And will not see into Van's pedigree; 

Nor whether he respects lies most, or liberty. 

An ambitious man is dangerous to all. 

Remove liim from I !ie Ciiair to prevent his fall. 

Since lie has not tliesrare to rem.ive hinself from place, 

Remove him Americans before your liliertiei are disgrac'd. 

And call yon snljects to his sovereign will, 

And s(-ll your liberties his pockets to fill. 

'I'he German Princ.s did so long aL'O. 

Your sixi;y-fourth anniversary proved it true. 

Seveiiieen truineas was paid for every man, 

To liirht Englaid's battles, and then be slain. 

A merirans conquer'd those servile slaves , 

Ami piov'd themselves humane, and truly lirave. 

And will you yield \ our freedom to Van IJiiren now ? 

Teach hiui submission to your laws any how ; 

Or in the next four years he'll prove himself a king ; 

And his wife will .e an American queen. 

Then iiend your necks, and with your knees make l)ows, 

And prostrate yourselves when you make your vows, 

Rise up ! proclaim Van Buren is our king ! 

Then sing hosannah's, and let the church-bells ring 

To the loyal anlhein of God save Van Burer: our king. 



WASIIING'TOJV OF THE WEST. 

I now attempt to describe Washington of the West. 

In this attempt I'll endeavor to do my best. 

Snntinrust V rmiiio, oo powerful the cause ; — 

That of freedom's riijhts, witii popnior ui»plause. 

America is the lurvvoi k of Christendom, 

Forslavesto fly from both kings and kingdoms. 

Must af be reduced to Van's subserv'-ency, 

By resorting to a gold and silver currency. 

The whole is not one-hundredth part enougii 

For puliiic industry, and merchandise to puff 

.Across the seas, in shins ladei» deep, will fre'glU ; 

Millions of tons, would scarce recount their weight. 

And what is more, agriculture to sustain. 

By flnating implements of trade across the main. 

The arts and sciences are of vast extent ; 

Not yet nurtured liy liie American continent. 

In America, arts arc; in their infa :cy of growth; 

At most emerging from infancy to youth. 

Learning the same. Where are your politicians; vaU 

In profundity, and solidity of cast. — 

Who see by intuitiou, as the future sight, 

Cnnseqiiencesdroadfully wrouii, and infinite. 

Yet some there are both noiile and sublime . 

Whose ideas as prophets prophecy the lime; 

Wlien America as a chaos in anarchy, 

Will centre in despotic monarchy. 

As the mildest evil of the two to clioose; 

No other choice being left, or to refuse. 

Forbid it heaven, forbid it, is heaven's decree. 

Restrain Van Bnren. Tlieu, democracy is free. 

Free 10 afsert her rishts: — free from pub/ic wrongs 

Free to be itidependent— liberty to prolong. 



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Let one spot on tlie jilolie he free frona slavery. 

Suffer the eminranl to lly from knavery. 

Oppression ;iiul desiffii ; — liy monarchy oppress'd. 

Receive IIkmh Amcrirans : — add not to tlitir distress. 

Welcoii.e 'hem to yonrsliores, — welcome tlieni in bands. 

Civilize yonipelves • i'ii lll0^e aniv'd tiom Ibr-^ign lands. 

Goodness liiey import; — wealiliand wi.-dom they bestow. 

In unison unite to siipp' ess great freedom's foe — 

The Suli Treasury Bill, — the darliiifi of all kings, — 

The support ot the pom|) and luxury ot queens. 

A healthy hank noie pay instead of pold 

Or are you sucii slaves as "o he bought and sold 

By Van Ifuren ? who advocates Independent 

Sub Treasury Bill, as an improvement 

On the had note system ; — a puhlic vvrong. 

Follow a i;oud one. I'll exhihlt it in song. 

Let each acre of clear'd land secure hank paper. 

You tlien secure freedom iieriv'd from the Creator 

Of llie lit avens and the earth ; who thus condescend!* 

To improvi' man's iirnorai ce, his wisdom to mend, 

Hencelbrih he free, nurdouhtful of your cause. 

A nation'^ grai iiuile is the best ajiplause. 

To adopt rotten s\ stems in the beginning, 

Are statesm^ n's tricks, and the craft of sinning 

Against God. and man foralterins his decrees. 

Man was to eat, drink, and nnilliply with ease, 

Pleas'd too. wiih whoiti ? pleas'd with himself and tliem. 

Pleas'd wuh Harrison as an homstuian. 

Van Buren's democracy, with English measures, 

Is a knavish way toolitain the golden treasures. 

But such as kinus do, who depei;d on force, 

With reginienis of foot and legions of liorse; — 
Drums h(>aiin(T. — colors flying, — cannons as great gnnis 

To subdue rel ellion, and make them run 
Like dovifs in a high wind, or hurricane : 

Such is the power of hayonots on mar. 

Will you an independent treasuty supply 

V/itli gold and silver, your courage to try ? 

And diive you into thesea or beyond. 

That rogues with kings may reign, while you abscond. 

Prevention in time, is good comisel, of yore. 

It is the same in physics, in pulitiis and with w 3. 

To prevent in lime is wisdom most profound. 

Not to prevent is to wait for the rel ound 

Of Fortune's wheel, and fortune's dangers too. 

Elect not Van Hisren, hut Harrison the true. 

Faithful to \ our cau^e, jtutice is in sight. 

Convey him to the President's (?hair in miglit. 

Indiana he fought more than once for you ; — 

Desert not your old general, a.nd Governor too. 

But advance fo: ward, as leaders ot tie van. 

Be ye the advanred pr.ard of the old veteran. 

Say not he is 1 ackward in so jus' a cause. 

Secure his election, then give him applause. 

Fight this I att'efov him, as he fought for you. 

Then Indiana may triumph as it is her due. 

Save the millions. Other states an example set. 

Be ye the first lo meet the foe, — Sub Treasury upset. 

Let it lay prostrate, trample it under foot. 

Press it in»o the mire with umd boots. 

If you compromise, theSOlh clause select. 

Insist upon that you> iiitenst to protect. 

Gain one link of tlie chain, — give them the rest. 

Your finger in one link the remainder are jests. 

You can do as you please, your properly protect ; 

And defy the malice of European sets. 

It was knaves and fools invented the hill. 

The knaves plan'd ii for fools , agai st their will. 

Some wiser, in America,first saw tlie plan 

To be an invention, to entangle man 

In the melius of a political net, 

And make those submit, who would reject 

AU hnds, and commons, — kings, and hour e of peers, 

And all the apes, who in all kingdoms cheer. 

European subjects of every degree, 

Who mock at freedom in chains of slavery; 

A bank once fixed on the solidity of land, 



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Woii)^ prove an extinguisher 'o the fir6-brandi 

Sub Treasury 's a torch, lo set liberty in a flam«. 

Under pretence to extinguish it apain. 

DamnM be the inventors, anrl upholders too; 

giatan is their God, for gohl they have in view, 

As a means for the end to pay tl>e troops of l(ingflo 

Americans be notguli'd, liy appearances or tilings. 

Your liberty once lost, you never can regain; — 

Soldiers will shoot yon, you will he the slain. 

Be prudent, he vigilant, and l>e wise; 

Your nation's riglifs are now the greatest prize 

They seek for in the lottery of liie. 

Protect your lionor, and the honor of your wife. 

How would you like kings lo revnl in her charms;— 

First l)y persuasion, — then by loire of arms. 

Seduce your wife first, — iht-ii yourself suliject, 

To be the slave of tyrants, whom }ou ipject 

With disdain. Look down upon freedom's foe; — 

Prevent in tiir.e, — before you have endless woe. 

Each man with clcar'd land should have a voice in bank, 

Th' one-acred man, wiih those of greater rank. 

Men, not acres, secure ilie hauled field. 

Then give not to pro()eriy, nor lo diplomacy yield 

Your birth right ; for, in America you're free 

To live with your family in prosperity. 

Say not the banks have failed ;— whose fault is that .' 

Legislator's want of wisdom, on |iur;!oseto distract 

The nation's wits, — to imnoseon their jngmenf. 

Sub Treasury Bill foist, upon their disrernmenti 

Let all taxes be paid, nine parts in bank notes 

Secured on land. — again secured by votes; — 

That every fatmer should have a voire in bank,'^ 

Equally with those of the greatest rank; 

Whether President, Senator, or not ; 

" By vvlicm begotten, or by whon! begot." 

When wealth influences votes, then ends democracy. 

And up starts monarcliy and aristocracy. 

The first as king, -the others pillars to his state ; 

Like guards surrounding rogues in senate. 

Such is the way money bills pass in England. 

Barracks' are everywhere fbrties^rs in the land, 

''o subdue popular luiiiuHs, atiri keep quiet 

The lower classes, whi e kings and nobles riot 

In all the luxury of ihedefpolic East ; — 

As gambling, gallivanting, v\ edoms, and feast?. 

One-tenth in gold and silver. — cellars need not hide 
Tiie gold and silver, I ui ditAise if, and divide,} 
Not for purposes of state,— ^^ars to maintain 
To slay the brave, lest their liberty lliey regain. 
England has done so times and oft ere now. 
To shew America iis eraft,— Its way ; and how 

National debts are made, to rid lile of its loads ;| 

And not in making canals and railroads. 
But human ills, inflicted by kingly reigns. 

May America never witness it again. 

Tiieir glorious revolution set tneni free. 

Be now as then careful of your liberty. 

Adopt in this crisis of America's fate, 

Washington of the West, before it is too late. 

General Harrison's the man of glorious fame — 

Will prove himself as wise in senate as in name. 

His glorious deeds were by valor won. 

Lythim rescue Amcri a, or si es undone, 

By soldiers in the field, with Field-marshall'spay, — 

Paid'iby Sub Treasury, Americans then may brajr 

Like asses and mules, and nations of fools; 

Forsufl^ering Van Burento ride them, as wooden stoota 

Are by children, when lliey flog them in play. 

Thiskingscall " fdaying at soldiers," in their pay. | 

Americans arouse ! at.d be not Van Burenduped; 

Nor parley lonjier; but, end this great dispute. 

Your freedom losecuie, elect Harrison tothe Chair. 

Let him imitate Washington ; and not a Van Buren bear, 

Whose chains were forged beforethey cross'd the seas. 

Will Americans be governed by whom England please? 

Certainly not. Then break the Van Buren chain. — 

Send him back to New York, and Kinderbook .igain. 



F (J S 1' S C R 1 r T . 

?rh';"LT„T;srr„rcpontn«rbur,;:lt'VdgA^ 

tdlse libeity aim uu ^ . ;^ ^s Dawson is very capable ot 

son u iwr'-'" ° ' ^ ^ . deserves to be placed in suitable language. The 
'Z!::^::fS!^^'l>^^^^ to KatL its own imago, and sl^ow. the 
Times its form and pressure." 

Who dares to lie dares to do otlier wvon?. 

For llii*. I exiiiiiil Moses Dawson in my song, 

As the vilegL pander of ihe scnl.hlinj; Irii.e : ,. , 

The more lie actasM Geii'l Harrison, ili' more lie lied. 

Damn'd be sueli rudiaiis of iho gander's quill— 

Curs'd lie llieir memories wiio thus distil, 

Urou by drop from l.rains ill pulrelaclion, 

Their own foul venom, v\ liicli drives them I distraction. 

Slander and vUlany stabs as with a lunfe ; 

It's Uius ih' assari^iii writes Van Bnren's life. 

Tlie foulest srilihk r of the laise democracy — 

Renudiaies truih to establish aristocracy. 

^o hired writer d .resscrib: le more lor Ulnss, 
And damn^ himself ior profit while he stings ; 
Hurls himself to hell, as one of Satan's band— 

A vile incendiary— a political fire- bi and. 

Battles fought, with pen. may live to light again— 

Battles foiigi i with swords, are lorever s'ain. 

The fir^t proves streiii^th of inind and solid sense— 

Tne last, brutality ami kiny;ly impudence. 

Dead men tell no tales, so munarchsall agrce- 

Tiien have no earthly Uings, but be always fee ; 

Free as air-free, with a W;.shington to guide 

You in a just cause and a nation's pride. 

Mot to submit to be trampled on by kings, 

Or trodden under foot by his legions 

Of I. oipe,with artillery to proclaim 

The victory of kings, by conqueruig the slain. 
rvho iorco-olnff iinea, it is expected, will counter oalancc, ellcctually, the 

-"^9Ci^:s^ti.^rt=^^r;^s^t^ 

tZ:Lt£d :tZ\Uc:. praise, meanin^g X:t:^^^l^^Z 



V „l hnrk Whether he is Jew or Infidel, I know nothing ; but this 1 know, 

he man who wr^^es the life of two opposite candidates, for pubhc favm^ 

nianjwi ^^ ^.^^^^ ^^ ^^ ^^^^ Versatility 

nT/.lentsaL commendable w they uphold truth ; but despicable when 
of talents ^^^^ <?«™^" ^ w-— e prostitutes her person for gain, 

rtTrd^'eTo? pr^n fple o'r^^'ords: I the sanctity of religious obligation. 
tK Sre of^bSsphemy and falsehood, arc heaped upon Moses Dawson 8 
S briiis cnvn liands^. Much good may it do him, with its stench al^ 
ways present, sleeping and waking, walking on foot or conversing ^Mth a | 
S7 if such a mSn ^^::^'ll^^::: ^^^^1^^, editor, like 

In a ^'^^^^'^-^llZlth^^^^^^ wind, well balanced I 

Johnny Gilpm, ^y^thout hat oi ^yg^J^y^J Harrison, on one side, and the , 
with the editorship of the Life o^Gcneia^ n ,^^^ ^ ^^^^ ^^^^^ 

editorslnp of the Lie of Van Bui en ^^ f ^^^J..,^ ,,,li,^_h^ speed accel- 

r% rfofc"n7u.S purpost a "o doubt the editor's was in writing both 
crated for ^o^JX^Stime • or is he to be considered asaSancho, play- 

rormendation of qualified and conditional praise, I -w lea^e hnn^t^ be 
estimated by a discerning public. • , 

' I last evening heard Colonel Johnson, who rode one of the dullest laiuea 
that e er ora or was mounted on. Its paces were those of a snail at .ull 
that e . er orato_r ^ pretensions to principles are no better 

evenln a Washington, the founder of the American Republic who set a 
lad example by yielding to the wishes of the people. Col. Johnson pre- 
sumes Z much on his animal courage, without reflecting his mental a bil- 

ities do not keep pace with his animal functions. 

It was but this morning that I saAV in the public paper, that Col. Pendle- 
ton is a candidate for Congress, in opposition to the Hon. Alexander Dun- 
can a physician in country practice. The adage of " the Cobler should 
not go beyond his last," I think applies in this instance, as a provincial 
candidate for fame, rather than for public patronage, upon a greater scale 
in the march of civilization and political disputation aiming to guide the 
public mind in a wrong cause. 

Is it his mass of flesh, bulk of bone, and Philistine-like appearance as 
another Goliah of Gath, that is to recommend him ? If so, elect one of 
the fattest hogs in Cincinnati, and there are plenty to be found in the 
streets, devouring the public ordure. 

I will not do Colonel Pendleton the wrong to compare him with this fat 
hog of the provinces, who may rival him in flesh, bulk and bone, but where 
are his principles ? In the " shades of the vasty deep," as they never ex- 
isted, so they never can be found when wanted. 

Pendleton for ever ! — He is a Harrison man. I condemn all fat hogs 
who value themselves upon their bulk, instead of their intellectual acquire- 
ments. Again, I say, Pendleton for ever ; and shew that mind with prin- 
ciples, are far beyond the brute propensities of our nature or mankind in 
general, for he is a particularly good man, from advocating the cause of 
right, instead of wrong. Lawyers of good principles, and lawyers of bad, 
are too distinct things. The first shall always have mj^ co-operation, in a 
iust cause, and the reverse when on an assumed principle, instead of a real 
one. The first is truth— the last is sophistry, or false to tmth^nd the 
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